Mindestlohn
Seit Inkrafttreten des Mindestlohngesetzes am 1. Januar 2015 gilt ein allgemeingültiger flächendeckender Mindestlohn in Deutschland. Lohnuntergrenzen gibt es in beinahe allen europäischen Staaten und den USA. Die Mindestlohn-Gesetze haben das Ziel, Lohn-Dumping, also die nicht verhältnismäßige Bezahlung von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern, zu verhindern.
Diese Infoplattform dokumentiert die Diskussion rund um die Einführung des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns in Deutschland und die Ergebnisse empirischer Forschung der letzten Jahre zu flächendeckenden und branchenspezifischen Mindestlöhnen.
- IAB
- Grundsätzliches zum flächendeckenden Mindestlohn
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf Personengruppen
- Ausnahmen vom flächendeckenden Mindestlohn für
- Ausweichreaktionen auf Mindestlöhne in Deutschland
- Bundesländer
- Branchenspezifische Mindestlöhne und deren Auswirkungen auf
- Mindestlohn in anderen Ländern
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The history of economic thought on the minimum wage (2015)
Krueger, Alan B.;Zitatform
Krueger, Alan B. (2015): The history of economic thought on the minimum wage. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 533-537. DOI:10.1111/irel.12104
Abstract
Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über 75 Jahre ökonomischer Theorieproduktion zur Wirkungsweise von Mindestlöhnen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei theoretisch wie empirisch auf den USA, beginnend mit den Debatten um den Fair Labor Standard Act aus dem Jahr 1938. Der Autor geht dann chronologisch auf ausgewählte Mindestlohnregelungen (auf der Ebene des Bundesstaates oder landesweit) und auf Wirkungsuntersuchungen mit unterschiedlichen wirtschaftstheoretischen Ansätze ein. (IAB)
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Who benefits from a minimum wage increase? (2015)
Lopresti, John W.; Mumford, Kevin J.;Zitatform
Lopresti, John W. & Kevin J. Mumford (2015): Who benefits from a minimum wage increase? (Upjohn Institute working paper 224), Kalamazoo, Mich., 33 S.
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"This paper addresses the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers. Most studies assume that there is a simple mechanical increase in the wage for workers earning a wage between the old and the new minimum wage, with some studies allowing for spillovers to workers with wages just above this range. Rather than assume that the wages of these workers would have remained constant, this paper estimates how a minimum wage increase impacts a low-wage worker's wage relative to the wage the worker would have if there had been no minimum wage increase. The method allows for the effect to depend not only on the initial wage of the worker, but also nonlinearly on the size of the minimum wage increase. Using Current Population Survey data from 2005 to 2008, a period with a large number of U.S. state-level minimum wage increases, this paper finds that low-wage workers who experience a small increase in the minimum wage tend to have lower wage growth than if there had been no minimum wage increase. A large increase to the minimum wage increases the wages of not only those workers who previously earned less than the new minimum wage, but also spill over to workers with moderately higher wages. Finally, this paper finds little evidence of heterogeneity in the effect by age, gender, income, and race." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How effective is the minimum wage at supporting the poor? (2015)
MaCurdy, Thomas;Zitatform
MaCurdy, Thomas (2015): How effective is the minimum wage at supporting the poor? In: Journal of political economy, Jg. 123, H. 2, S. 497-545. DOI:10.1086/679626
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"This study investigates the antipoverty efficacy of minimum wage policies. Proponents of these policies contend that employment impacts are negligible and suggest that consumers pay for higher labor costs through imperceptible increases in goods prices. Adopting this empirical scenario, the analysis demonstrates that an increase in the national minimum wage produces a value-added tax effect on consumer prices that is more regressive than a typical state sales tax and allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution. These income-transfer outcomes sharply contradict portraying an increase in the minimum wage as an antipoverty initiative." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and spatial equilibrium: theory and evidence (2015)
Monras, Joan;Zitatform
Monras, Joan (2015): Minimum wages and spatial equilibrium. Theory and evidence. (IZA discussion paper 9460), Bonn, 30 S.
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"Often, minimum wage laws are decided at the state or regional level, and even when not, federal level increases are only binding in certain states. This has been used in previous literature to evaluate the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment levels. This paper introduces a spatial equilibrium model to think about the seemingly conflicting findings of this previous literature. The model shows that the introduction of minimum wages can lead to an increase or a decrease in population depending on the local labor demand elasticity and on how unemployment benefits are financed. The paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the model. On average, increases in minimum wages lead to increases in average wages and decreases in employment. The low-skilled local labor demand elasticity is estimated to be above, which in the model is a necessary condition for the migration responses found in the data. Low-skilled workers, who are presumably the target of the policy, tend to leave or avoid moving to the regions that increase minimum wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Divided opinion on the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: random or systematic differences (2015)
O¿Neill, Donal;Zitatform
O¿Neill, Donal (2015): Divided opinion on the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. Random or systematic differences. In: Economics letters, Jg. 136, H. November, S. 175-178. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.09.020
Abstract
"This paper analyses economists' support for the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. I find systematic differences between those supporting the legislation and those opposing it, with support higher among females, young labour economists and those located further from Chicago." (Author's abstract, © 2015 Elsevier) ((en))
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The ups and downs of minimum wage policy: the fair labor standards act in historical perspective (2015)
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Reich, Michael (2015): The ups and downs of minimum wage policy. The fair labor standards act in historical perspective. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 538-546. DOI:10.1111/irel.12105
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"I provide here a historical overview of the impact of minimum wage legislation, enacted over 75 years ago in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 and as amended subsequently on numerous occasions." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of minimum wages on food stamp enrollment and expenditures (2015)
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Reich, Michael & Rachel West (2015): The effects of minimum wages on food stamp enrollment and expenditures. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 668-694. DOI:10.1111/irel.12110
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"We provide the first causal analysis of how minimum wages affects enrollments and expenditures in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Exploiting state- and federal-level variation in minimum-wage policy between 1990 and 2012, and incorporating local controls in our specifications, we find that a 10 percent minimum wage increase reduces SNAP enrollment between 2.4 and 3.2 percent, and reduces program expenditures an estimated 1.9 percent. If the federal minimum wage were increased from $7.25 to $10.10, enrollment would fall between 7.5 and 8.7 percent (3.1 to 3.6 million persons) relative to 2012 levels, and annual expenditures would decrease 6 percent ($4.6 billion)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and gross domestic product (2015)
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Sabia, Joseph J. (2015): Minimum wages and gross domestic product. In: Contemporary Economic Policy, Jg. 33, H. 4, S. 587-605. DOI:10.1111/coep.12099
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"This study is the first to explore the relationship between minimum wage increases and state gross domestic product (GDP). Using data drawn from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1979 to 2012, I find no evidence that minimum wage increases were associated with changes in overall state GDP. However, this null finding masks substantial heterogeneity in the productivity effects of minimum wages across industries and over the business cycle. Difference-in-difference-in-difference estimates suggest that a 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with a short-run 1% to 2% decline in state GDP generated by lower-skilled industries relative to more highly skilled industries. This differential appears larger during troughs as compared to that during peaks of the state business cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Explaining the small employment effects of the minimum wage in the United States (2015)
Schmitt, John;Zitatform
Schmitt, John (2015): Explaining the small employment effects of the minimum wage in the United States. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 547-581. DOI:10.1111/irel.12106
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"The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This paper examines the most recent wave of this research - roughly since 2000 - to determine the best current estimate of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers in the United States. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage. The paper also reviews evidence on a range of possible adjustments to minimum- wage increases that may help to explain why the measured employment effects are consistently small." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of minimum wages on employment: a factor model approach (2015)
Totty, Evan;Zitatform
Totty, Evan (2015): The effect of minimum wages on employment. A factor model approach. (IRLE working paper 2015-110), Berkeley, CA, 60 S.
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"This paper resolves issues in the minimum wage-employment debate by using factor model econometric methods to address concerns related to unobserved heterogeneity. Recent work has shown that the negative effects of minimum wages on employment found using traditional methods are sensitive to the inclusion of controls for regional heterogeneity and selection of states that experience minimum wage hikes, leaving the two sides of the debate in disagreement about the appropriate approach. Factor model methods are an ideal solution for this disagreement, as they allow for the presence of multiple unobserved common factors, which can be correlated with the repressors. These methods provide a more flexible way of addressing concerns related to unobserved heterogeneity and are robust to critiques from either side of the debate. The factor model estimators produce minimum wage-employment elasticities that are much smaller than the traditional OLS results and are not statistically different from zero. These results hold for many specifications and two datasets that have been used in the minimum wage-employment literature. A simulation shows that unobserved common factors can explain the different estimates seen across methodologies in the literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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On the robustness of minimum wage effects: geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations (2014)
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Addison, John T., McKinley L. Blackburn & Chad D. Cotti (2014): On the robustness of minimum wage effects. Geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations. (IZA discussion paper 8420), Bonn, 22 S.
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"Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been sharply criticized for its neglect of spatial heterogeneity so, too, have the latest models been attacked for their uncritical use of state- or county-specific linear trends (and other spatial counterfactuals). Further attenuation of the effects of policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth rather than levels. This paper investigates whether such considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment levels is indicated and that while experimentation with nonlinear trends may be productive their use is unlikely to dislodge the finding of considerably reduced negative employment effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs: evidence from the minimum wage (2014)
Cadena, Brian C.;Zitatform
Cadena, Brian C. (2014): Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs. Evidence from the minimum wage. In: Journal of urban economics, Jg. 80, H. March, S. 1-12. DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2013.10.002
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"This paper investigates the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants' location decisions. Canonical models emphasize the importance of labor mobility when evaluating the employment effects of the minimum wage; yet few studies address this outcome directly. Low-skilled immigrant populations shift toward labor markets with stagnant minimum wages, and this result is robust to a number of alternative interpretations. This mobility provides behavior-based evidence in favor of a non-trivial negative employment effect of the minimum wage. Further, it reduces the estimated demand elasticity using teens; employment losses among native teens are substantially larger in states that have historically attracted few immigrant residents." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage and the Great Recession: evidence of effects on the employment and income trajectories of low-skilled workers (2014)
Clemens, Jeffrey; Wither, Michael;Zitatform
Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael Wither (2014): The minimum wage and the Great Recession. Evidence of effects on the employment and income trajectories of low-skilled workers. (NBER working paper 20724), Cambrige, Mass., 70 S. DOI:10.3386/w20724
Abstract
"We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data we analyze. First, we compare workers in states that were bound by recent increases in the federal minimum wage to workers in states that were not. Second, we use 12 months of baseline data to divide low-skilled workers into a 'target' group, whose baseline wage rates were directly affected, and a 'within-state control' group with slightly higher baseline wage rates. Over three subsequent years, we find that binding minimum wage increases had significant, negative effects on the employment and income growth of targeted workers. Lost income reflects contributions from employment declines, increased probabilities of working without pay (i.e., an 'internship' effect), and lost wage growth associated with reductions in experience accumulation. Methodologically, we show that our approach identifies targeted workers more precisely than the demographic and industrial proxies used regularly in the literature. Additionally, because we identify targeted workers on a population-wide basis, our approach is relatively well suited for extrapolating to estimates of the minimum wage's effects on aggregate employment. Over the late 2000s, the average effective minimum wage rose by 30 percent across the United States. We estimate that these minimum wage increases reduced the national employment-to-population ratio by 0.7 percentage point." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Is the minimum wage a pull factor for immigrants? (2014)
Giulietti, Corrado;Zitatform
Giulietti, Corrado (2014): Is the minimum wage a pull factor for immigrants? In: ILR review, Jg. 67, H. Supplement, S. 649-674. DOI:10.1177/00197939140670S308
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"This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of immigrants are a function of the expected wage growth induced by the minimum wage. The analysis focuses on the US minimum wage increase of 1996 and 1997, using data from the Current Population Survey and the census. The estimation strategy consists of using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to five times larger than States in which average wages grew 10% less. Placebo tests confirm that the policy did not affect the immigration of high wage earners." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The $10.10 minimum wage proposal: an evaluation across states (2014)
Hanson, Andrew; Hawley, Zackary;Zitatform
Hanson, Andrew & Zackary Hawley (2014): The $10.10 minimum wage proposal. An evaluation across states. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 35, H. 4, S. 323-345. DOI:10.1007/s12122-014-9190-8
Abstract
"This paper offers state-level estimates of job loss from increasing the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour in 2016. Given the vast differences in nominal wages across geography, a federal increase in minimum wage that is not indexed to local wage levels will have a differential impacts across states. The proposed minimum wage would be binding for between 17 and 18 % of workers nationally. We estimate coverage rates ranging from just 4 % in Washington D.C. to as high as 51 % in Puerto Rico, with 13 states having at least 20 % of the employed population covered by the proposal. Using labor demand elasticities from previous empirical work, these coverage rates imply national employment losses between 550,000 and 1.5 million workers. The range of state estimates shows that states are differentially impacted, with high-end loss estimates ranging between 2.8 % of covered employees in Arkansas to over 41 % in Puerto Rico. Sensitivity analysis highlights that using even a simple methodology with relatively few assumptions for estimating employment loss from minimum wage changes is subject to a high degree of uncertainty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment effects of the 2009 minimum wage increase: new evidence from state-based comparisons of workers by skill level (2014)
Hoffman, Saul D.;Zitatform
Hoffman, Saul D. (2014): Employment effects of the 2009 minimum wage increase. New evidence from state-based comparisons of workers by skill level. In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Jg. 14, H. 3, S. 695-721. DOI:10.1515/bejeap-2012-0004
Abstract
"In July, 2009, when the US Federal minimum wage was increased from $6.55 to $7.25, individuals in nearly one-third of all states were unaffected, since the state minimum wage already exceeded $7.25. We use this variation to make comparisons of the employment of low-skill workers with their peers across states and with workers within states who were arguably unaffected by the increase, using DID and DIDID methods. Our data come from the 2009 Current Population Survey, 4 and 5 months before and after the increase. We find little evidence of negative employment effects for teens or less-educated adults. Further control for demographic characteristics and state fixed effects have relatively small effects on the size and significance of estimated effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate: throwing out the baby with the bathwater? (2014)
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Neumark, David, J.M. Ian Salas & William Wascher (2014): Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? In: ILR review, Jg. 67, H. Supplement, S. 608-648. DOI:10.1177/00197939140670S307
Abstract
"We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the 'new minimum wage research' is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These new studies use research designs intended to control for this heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these research designs to isolate reliable identifying information and test the untested assumptions in this new research about the construction of better control groups. Our evidence points to serious problems with these research designs. We conclude that the evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a trade-off of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that policymakers need to bear this trade-off in mind when making decisions about increasing the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States (2014)
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Neumark, David, John Michael Ian S. Salas & William Wascher (2014): More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States. In: IZA journal of labor policy, Jg. 3, S. 1-26. DOI:10.1186/2193-9004-3-24
Abstract
"A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (2010) and Allegretto et al. (2011) argue that past U.S. research is flawed because it does not restrict comparison areas to those that are geographically proximate and fails to control for changes in low-skill labor markets that are correlated with minimum wage increases. They argue that using 'local controls' establishes that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (2014), we present evidence that their methods fail to isolate more reliable identifying information and lead to incorrect conclusions. Moreover, for subsets of treatment groups where the identifying variation they use is supported by the data, the evidence is consistent with past findings of disemployment effects. Allegretto et al. (2013) have challenged our conclusions, continuing the debate regarding some key issues regarding choosing comparison groups for estimating minimum wage effects. We explain these issues and evaluate the evidence. In general, we find little basis for their analyses and conclusions, and argue that the best evidence still points to job loss from minimum wages for very low-skilled workers - in particular, for teens." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of minimum wages over the business cycle (2014)
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Sabia, Joseph J. (2014): The effects of minimum wages over the business cycle. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 35, H. 3, S. 227-245. DOI:10.1007/s12122-014-9180-x
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"This study examines whether the low-skilled employment effects of minimum wage increases differ over the state business cycle. Controlling for spatial heterogeneity via state-specific productivity shocks to the low-skilled sector and state-specific non-linear time trends, the results suggest that minimum wage increases between 1989 and 2012 reduce low-skilled employment more during recessions than expansions. Estimated employment elasticities with respect to the minimum wage range from 0 to -0.2 during state economic expansions, but reach as high as -0.3 during troughs in the business cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment (2013)
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Addison, John T., McKinley L. Blackburn & Chad D. Cotti (2013): Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment. In: Labour economics, Jg. 23, H. August, S. 30-39. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.02.004
Abstract
"Do seemingly large minimum-wage increases in an environment of deep recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment than is often observed in the modern minimum wage literature? This paper uses three data sets to examine the employment effects of the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage. We focus on two high-risk groups - restaurant-and-bar employees and teenagers - for the years 2005 - 2010. Although the evidence for a general disemployment effect is not uniform, estimates do suggest the presence of a negative minimum wage effect in states hardest hit by the recession." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Credible research designs for minimum wage studies (2013)
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Allegretto, Sylvia, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich & Ben Zipperer (2013): Credible research designs for minimum wage studies. (IZA discussion paper 7638), Bonn, 79 S.
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"Over the past two decades, the states that experienced larger minimum wage increases have been spatially clustered. We show that these states also systematically differed from other states with respect to the depth of their business cycles, growth in upper-half wage inequality, increased job polarization, and political-economy. We present estimates of minimum wage effects for teens and restaurant workers using five datasets and six different approaches to controlling for spatial confounds. We show that the disemployment results suggested by the canonical two-way fixed effects model are spurious, as these specifications generally fail falsification tests for pre-existing trends. Using policy variation within local areas (county pairs, commuting zones) or regions, as well as inclusion of state-specific trends, typically renders the employment effect small in magnitude and statistically indistinguishable from zero. We additionally find that employment effects are close to zero when we account for heterogeneity using lagged dependent variables and dynamic panel models. We also present evidence using the synthetic control estimator: pooling across state minimum wage increases between 1997 and 2007, the synthetic control estimate shows no evidence of job losses for teens. We confirm the validity of local controls by demonstrating that synthetic control weights decline with distance: a donor state 100 miles away receives a weight seven times as large as a state 2,000 miles away. We also directly show that neighbouring counties are more similar in terms of covariates than are other counties. These findings refute the claims made in a recent paper by Neumark, Salas and Wascher that criticize the use of local controls. We conclude by proposing some guidelines for assessing convincing research designs for minimum wage studies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages, earnings, and migration (2013)
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Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest (2013): Minimum wages, earnings, and migration. In: IZA journal of migration, Jg. 2, S. 1-24. DOI:10.1186/2193-9039-2-17
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"Does increasing a state's minimum wage induce migration into the state? Previous literature has shown mobility in response to welfare benefit differentials across states, yet few have examined the minimum wage as a cause of mobility. Focusing on low-skilled immigrants, this paper empirically examines the effect of minimum wages on location decisions within the United States. This paper expands upon minimum wage and immigration literatures by demonstrating that the choice of destination is sensitive to minimum wage changes, and that the effects are highly dependent on the number of years an immigrant has resided in the U.S." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of the minimum wage on covered teenage employment (2013)
Coomer, Nicole M.; Wessels, Walter J.;Zitatform
Coomer, Nicole M. & Walter J. Wessels (2013): The effect of the minimum wage on covered teenage employment. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 253-280. DOI:10.1007/s12122-013-9160-6
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"Unlike previous studies on the minimum wage, which focused on its effect on total teenage employment, we examine its effect on covered employment. A covered job was defined to be one paying the minimum wage or more. Using contemporary wages to classify workers this way may inflate the estimated effect of minimum wages on covered employment. To avoid this bias, covered jobs are identified using a logit procedure run over years in which the minimum age was not increased. We find that minimum wages reduced covered employment significantly more than total employment. We also show that covered employment may be overstated in the period following an increase in the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage shocks, employment flows and labor market frictions (2013)
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Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester & Michael Reich (2013): Minimum wage shocks, employment flows and labor market frictions. (IRLE working paper 2013-149), Berkeley, CA, 63 S.
Abstract
"We provide the first estimates of the effects of minimum wages on employment flows in the U.S. labor market, identifying the impact using policy discontinuities at state borders. We find that minimum wages have a sizable negative effect on employment flows but not stocks: separations and accessions fall among affected workers. We interpret our findings using a job-ladder model, in which minimum wage increases can reduce job-to-job transitions. We find that a standard calibration of the model generates predicted relative magnitudes of the employment stock and flow elasticities that are very close to our reduced-form estimates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and aggregate job growth: causal effect or statistical artifact? (2013)
Dube, Arindrajit;Zitatform
Dube, Arindrajit (2013): Minimum wages and aggregate job growth. Causal effect or statistical artifact? (IZA discussion paper 7674), Bonn, 13 S.
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"A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it is sizable for some time periods. However, I show that this negative association is present in exactly the wrong sectors. It is particularly strong in manufacturing which hires very few minimum wage workers. At the same time, there is no such association in retail, or in accommodation and food services - which together hire nearly 2/3 of all minimum wage workers. These results indicate that the negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth does not represent a causal relationship. Rather the association stems from an inability to account for differences between high and low minimum wage states and the timing of minimum wage increases. Consistent with that interpretation, when I use bordering counties to construct more credible control groups, I find no such negative correlation between minimum wages and overall employment growth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration (2013)
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler-Cohen, Odelia;Zitatform
Epstein, Gil S. & Odelia Heizler-Cohen (2013): Minimum wages and the creation of illegal migration. In: Economics Bulletin, Jg. 33, H. 1, S. 434-441.
Abstract
"In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and thus creating illegal migration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage effects on employment, substitution, and the teenage labor supply: evidence from personnel data (2013)
Giuliano, Laura;Zitatform
Giuliano, Laura (2013): Minimum wage effects on employment, substitution, and the teenage labor supply. Evidence from personnel data. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 155-194. DOI:10.1086/666921
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"Using personnel data froma large US retail firm, I examine the firm's response to the 1996 federal minimum wage increase. Compulsory increases in average wages had negative but statistically insignificant effects on overall employment. However, increases in the relative wages of teenagers led to significant increases in the relative employment of teenagers, especially younger and more affluent teenagers. Further analysis suggests a pattern consistent with noncompetitive models. Where the legislation affected mainly the wages of teenagers and so was only moderately binding, it led both to higher teenage labor market participation and to higher absolute employment of teenagers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and youth unemployment (2013)
Gorry, Aspen;Zitatform
Gorry, Aspen (2013): Minimum wages and youth unemployment. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 64, H. November, S. 57-75. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.08.004
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"This paper constructs a labor search model to explore the effects of minimum wages on youth unemployment. To capture the gradual decline in unemployment for young workers as they age, the standard search model is extended so that workers gain experience when employed. Experienced workers have higher average productivity and lower job finding and separation rates that match wage and worker flow data. In this environment, minimum wages can have large effects on unemployment because they interact with a worker's ability to gain job experience. The increase in minimum wages between 2007 and 2009 can account for a 0.8 percentage point increase in the steady state unemployment rate and a 2.8 percentage point increase in unemployment for 15-24 year old workers in the model parameterized to simulate outcomes of high school educated workers. Minimum wages can also help explain the high rates of youth unemployment in France compared to the United States." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and teen employment: a spatial panel approach (2013)
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J.;Zitatform
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. & Donald J. Lacombe (2013): Minimum wages and teen employment. A spatial panel approach. In: Papers in regional science, Jg. 92, H. 2, S. 407-417. DOI:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00453.x
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"The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and annual averages data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states. The authors find a combined direct and indirect effect of minimum wages on teen employment to be -2.1 per cent for a 10 per cent increase in the real effective minimum wage. Ignoring spatial correlation underestimates the magnitude of the effect of minimum wages on teen employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Why does the minimum wage have no discernible effect on employment? (2013)
Schmitt, John;Zitatform
Schmitt, John (2013): Why does the minimum wage have no discernible effect on employment? Washington, DC, 28 S.
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"The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research - roughly since 2000 - to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of minimum wages on labour market outcomes: county-level estimates from the restaurant-and-bar sector (2012)
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Addison, John T., McKinley L. Blackburn & Chad D. Cotti (2012): The effect of minimum wages on labour market outcomes. County-level estimates from the restaurant-and-bar sector. In: BJIR, Jg. 50, H. 3, S. 412-435. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2010.00819.x
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"We use US county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum-wage changes in low-wage labour markets. Our estimated models are consistent with a simple competitive model in which supply-and-demand factors affect both the equilibrium outcome and the probability of the minimum wage being binding. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment once controls for trends in county-level sectoral employment are incorporated. Rather, employment appears to exhibit an independent downward trend in states that have increased their minimum wages relative to states that have not, thereby predisposing estimates towards reporting negative outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of the minimum wage for tipped workers on firm strategy, employees and social welfare (2012)
Azar, Ofer H.;Zitatform
Azar, Ofer H. (2012): The effect of the minimum wage for tipped workers on firm strategy, employees and social welfare. In: Labour economics, Jg. 19, H. 5, S. 748-755. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2012.07.002
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"Millions of workers derive much of their income from tips and are subject to the 'tipped minimum wage' that differs from the regular minimum wage. This article examines the implications of the tipped minimum wage and shows that increasing it may lead restaurants to adopt a compulsory service charge in lieu of tipping to extract the economic rent enjoyed by waiters under tipping. Because servers are better off with tipping, this implies that increasing the tipped minimum wage in an attempt to increase servers' income may achieve the opposite result. Moreover, increasing the tipped minimum wage may reduce social welfare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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State minimum wage differences: economic factors or political inclinations? (2012)
Ford, William F.; Minor, Travis; Owens, Mark F.;Zitatform
Ford, William F., Travis Minor & Mark F. Owens (2012): State minimum wage differences: economic factors or political inclinations? In: Business Economics, Jg. 47, H. 1, S. 57-67. DOI:10.1057/be.2011.37
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"This paper examines the importance of factors that influence a state's decision to adopt an above-federal minimum wage level. Our results indicate that state political leanings are the primary factor explaining differences in state minimum wage laws since 1991. Further, state cost of living differences do not appear to influence a state's decision to increase its minimum wage above the federal level. This result is interesting since proponents of raising the minimum wage cite the rising cost of living as a principal justification for an increase. Our findings should be of special interest to economists responsible for analyzing and forecasting labor cost trends within and among states where their employers operate or plan to relocate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Less myth, more measurement: Decomposing excess returns from the 1989 minimum wage hike (2012)
Lin, Carl;Zitatform
Lin, Carl (2012): Less myth, more measurement: Decomposing excess returns from the 1989 minimum wage hike. (IZA discussion paper 6269), Bonn, 28 S.
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"In the book Myth and Measurement, Card and Krueger (1995) examine the economic impact of the 1989 minimum wage hike on the welfare of 110 firms which employ a disproportionate number of minimum-wage workers. Their results show mixed evidence that excess returns associated with news about the 1989 minimum-wage legislation. This paper re-examines this question by decomposing excess returns. Our simple and intuitive approach attributes excess returns to either differences in market performances (economy-wide factors) or firm-specific traits (individualistic factors). We likewise show that, generally, minimum wage legislation had little or no effect on employer wealth. However, by decomposing total excess returns, we find that the apparent lack of an effect is a consequence of two off-setting forces: (1) a negative effect arising from firm-specific traits (adverse information on minimum-wage worker employers) and (2) a positive effect arising from market performance. In other words, we show that while the aggregate effect of the 1989 minimum wage hike was neutral, there was a significant negative impact on firms that was neutralized by positive market performance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate: throwing out the baby with the bathwater? (2012)
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Neumark, David, J.M. Ian Salas & William Wascher (2012): Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater? (NBER working paper 18681), Cambridge, Mass., 59 S. DOI:10.3386/w18681
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"We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the 'new minimum wage research' is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These new studies use research designs intended to control for this heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these research designs to isolate reliable identifying information and test the untested assumptions in this new research about the construction of better control groups. Our evidence points to serious problems with these research designs. We conclude that the evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a trade-off of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that policymakers need to bear this trade-off in mind when making decisions about increasing the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: what do we know now? (2012)
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Neumark, David, Matthew Thompson & Leslie Koyle (2012): The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families. What do we know now? In: IZA journal of labor policy, Jg. 1, S. 1-44. DOI:10.1186/2193-9004-1-11
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"We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding systems in the mid-2000s. The updated evidence is broadly consistent with the conclusions reached by prior research, including a recent review of that earlier evidence. Living wage laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them. This implies that living wage laws generate both winners and losers among those affected by them. For broader living wage laws that cover recipients of business or financial assistance from cities, the net effects point to modest reductions in urban poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small?: new evidence from a case study of New York State (2012)
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Sabia, Joseph J., Richard V. Burkhauser & Benjamin Hansen (2012): Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small? New evidence from a case study of New York State. In: ILR review, Jg. 65, H. 2, S. 350-376. DOI:10.1177/001979391206500207
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"The authors estimate the effect of the 2004-6 New York State (NYS) minimum wage increase from $5.15 to $6.75 per hour on the employment rates of 16- to 29-year-olds who do not have a high school diploma. Using data drawn from the 2004 and 2006 Current Population Survey, they employ difference-in-difference estimates to show that the NYS minimum wage increase is associated with a 20.2% to 21.8% reduction in the employment of less-skilled, less-educated workers, with the largest effects on those aged 16 to 24. Their estimates imply a median employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of around - 0.7, large relative to previous researchers' estimates. The authors' findings are robust to their choice of geographically proximate comparison states, the use of a more highly skilled within-state comparison group, and a synthetic control design approach. Moreover, their results provide plausible evidence that state minimum wage increases can have substantial adverse labor demand effects for low-skilled individuals that are outside previous elasticity estimates, ranging from - 0.1 to - 0.3." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage (2012)
Slonimczyk, Fabian; Skott, Peter;Zitatform
Slonimczyk, Fabian & Peter Skott (2012): Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Jg. 84, H. 1, S. 245-264. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2012.03.005
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"This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality. Evidence from the US suggests that these theoretical results are empirically relevant. The over-education rate has been increasing and our regression analysis suggests that the decrease in the minimum wage may have led to a deterioration of the employment and relative wage of low-skill workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances (2011)
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Addison, John T., McKinley L. Blackburn & Chad D. Cotti (2011): Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances. (IZA discussion paper 6036), Bonn, 42 S.
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"Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three different data sets and the two main estimation strategies for handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of a 'recessionary multiplier.' Minimum wage workers seem to be concentrated in sectors of the economy for which the labor demand response to wage mandates is minimal." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The distributional impacts of minimum wage increases when both labor supply and labor demand are endogenous (2011)
Ahn, Tom; Arcidiacono, Peter; Wessels, Walter;Zitatform
Ahn, Tom, Peter Arcidiacono & Walter Wessels (2011): The distributional impacts of minimum wage increases when both labor supply and labor demand are endogenous. In: Journal of business and economic statistics, Jg. 29, H. 1, S. 12-23. DOI:10.1198/jbes.2010.07076
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"We develop and estimate a one-shot search model with endogenous firm entry, and therefore zero expected profits, and endogenous labor supply. Positive employment effects from a minimum wage increase can result as the employment level depends upon both the numbers of searching firms and workers. Welfare implications are similar to the classical analysis: workers who most want the minimum wage jobs are hurt by the minimum wage hike with workers marginally interested in minimum wage jobs benefiting. We estimate the model using CPS data on teenagers and show that small changes in the employment level are masking large changes in labor supply and demand. Teenagers from well-educated families see increases in their employment probabilities and push out their less-privileged counterparts from the labor market. This article has supplementary material online." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wages really reduce teen employment?: accounting for heterogeneity and selectivity in state panel data (2011)
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Allegretto, Sylvia A., Arindrajit Dube & Michael Reich (2011): Do minimum wages really reduce teen employment? Accounting for heterogeneity and selectivity in state panel data. (IRLE working paper 2011-166), Berkeley, CA, 51 S.
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"Traditional estimates of minimum wage effects include controls for state unemployment rates and state and year fixed-effects. Using CPS data on teens for the period 1990 - 2009, we show that such estimates fail to account for heterogeneous employment patterns that are correlated with selectivity among states with minimum wages. As a result, the estimates are often biased and vary with the source of identifying variation. Including controls for long-term growth differences among states and for heterogeneous economic shocks renders the employment and hours elasticities indistinguishable from zero and rules out any but small disemployment effects. Dynamic evidence further shows the nature of bias in traditional estimates, and it also rules out more negative long run effects. We do not find evidence of heterogeneous employment effects in different parts of the business cycle. We also consider predictable versus unpredictable changes in the minimum wage by looking at indexation of the minimum wage in some states." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do frictions matter in the labor market?: accessions, separations and minimum wage effects (2011)
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Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester & Michael Reich (2011): Do frictions matter in the labor market? Accessions, separations and minimum wage effects. (IZA discussion paper 5811), Bonn, 41 S.
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"We provide the first test of the effects of U.S. minimum wages on labor market flows (accession, separation and turnover rates). Using county pairs straddling borders with minimum wage differences, we find large negative effects on all three measures, but no disemployment effects on teens or restaurant workers. Separation and accessions among restaurant workers falls considerably among fast food establishments, among teens and young adults, and for jobs with less than one quarter tenure. The teen, young adult, and female compositions of the restaurant workforce do not change in response to minimum wage increases. Among all teen workers (including those not working in restaurants), we find similar patterns of lower turnover coupled with employment effects close to zero. We show that these results are consistent with a wage-posting model, under conditions containing a substantial extent of friction and a high market-level labor supply elasticity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do frictions matter in the labor market?: accessions, separations and minimum wage effects (2011)
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Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester & Michael Reich (2011): Do frictions matter in the labor market? Accessions, separations and minimum wage effects. (IRLE working paper 2010-222), Berkeley, CA, 39 S.
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"We provide the first test of the effects of U.S. minimum wages on labor market flows (accession, separation and turnover rates). Using county pairs straddling borders with minimum wage differences, we find large negative effects on all three measures, but no disemployment effects on teens or restaurant workers. Separation and accessions among restaurant workers falls considerably among fast food establishments, among teens and young adults, and for jobs with less than one quarter tenure. The teen, young adult, and female compositions of the restaurant workforce do not change in response to minimum wage increases. Among all teen workers (including those not working in restaurants), we find similar patterns of lower turnover coupled with employment effects close to zero. We show that these results are consistent with a wage-posting model, under conditions containing a substantial extent of friction and a high market-level labor supply elasticity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage and labor market outcomes (2011)
Flinn, Christopher J.;Zitatform
Flinn, Christopher J. (2011): The minimum wage and labor market outcomes. Cambridge: MIT Press, 306 S.
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"In The Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes, Christopher Flinn argues that in assessing the effects of the minimum wage (in the United States and elsewhere), a behavioral framework is invaluable for guiding empirical work and the interpretation of results. Flinn develops a job search and wage bargaining model that is capable of generating labor market outcomes consistent with observed wage and unemployment duration distributions, and also can account for observed changes in employment rates and wages after a minimum wage change. Flinn uses previous studies from the minimum wage literature to demonstrate how his model can be used to rationalize and synthesize the diverse results found in widely varying institutional contexts. He also shows how observed wage distributions from before and after a minimum wage change can be used to determine if the change was welfare-improving. More ambitiously, and perhaps controversially, Flinn proposes the construction and formal estimation of the model using commonly available data; model estimates then enable the researcher to determine directly the welfare effects of observed minimum wage changes. This model can be used to conduct counterfactual policy experiments - even to determine 'optimal' minimum wages under a variety of welfare metrics.
The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimization in continuous time to follow the arguments. Although most of the book focuses on the case where only the unemployed search for jobs in a homogeneous labor market environment, later chapters introduce on-the-job search into the model, and explore its implications for minimum wage policy. The book also contains a chapter describing how individual heterogeneity can be introduced into the search, matching, and bargaining framework." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Minimum wages, employer-provided health insurance, and the non-discrimination law (2011)
Marks, Mindy S.;Zitatform
Marks, Mindy S. (2011): Minimum wages, employer-provided health insurance, and the non-discrimination law. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 50, H. 2, S. 241-262. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2011.00635.x
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"This article exploits cross-state variation in minimum wages to investigate the impact of minimum wage changes on employer-provided health insurance. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, this article considers an environment where some firms are constrained by non-discrimination laws that govern the provision of health insurance. For these firms, minimum wage changes do not reduce the probability that workers will receive employer-provided health insurance. For firms not covered by the non-discrimination law, and free to tailor their fringe benefits, low-skilled workers experience a disproportionate reduction in the availability and generosity of health insurance after a minimum wage increase." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does a higher minimum wage enhance the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit? (2011)
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Neumark, David & William Wascher (2011): Does a higher minimum wage enhance the effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit? In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jg. 64, H. 4, S. 712-746.
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"The authors estimate the effects of the interactions between the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and minimum wages on labor market outcomes. They use information on policy variation from the Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review, reports published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and data on individuals and families from the Current Population Survey to assess the economic impact of minimum wages and the EITC on families. Their results indicate that for single women with children, the EITC boosts employment and earnings, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage enhances this positive effect. Conversely, for less-skilled minority men and for women without children, employment and earnings are more adversely affected by the EITC when the minimum wage is higher. Turning from individuals to families, for very poor families with children a higher minimum wage increases the positive impact of the EITC on incomes, so that a higher minimum wage appears to enhance the effects of the EITC. Whether the policy combination of a high EITC and a high minimum wage is viewed as favorable or unfavorable depends in Part on whom policymakers are trying to help." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of minimum wages on unemployment duration: estimating the effects using the Displaced Worker Survey (2011)
Pedace, Roberto; Rohn, Stephanie;Zitatform
Pedace, Roberto & Stephanie Rohn (2011): The impact of minimum wages on unemployment duration. Estimating the effects using the Displaced Worker Survey. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 50, H. 1, S. 57-75. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2010.00625.x
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"This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on unemployment duration. Our estimates suggest that higher minimum wages are associated with shorter unemployment duration for older males and those with at least a high school diploma, but longer unemployment spells for male high school dropouts and females who are older and in lower-skilled occupations. The results are consistent with other studies in generating concerns about the distributional impact of minimum wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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State minimum wages and business location: evidence from a refined border approach (2011)
Rohlin, Shawn M.;Zitatform
Rohlin, Shawn M. (2011): State minimum wages and business location. Evidence from a refined border approach. In: Journal of urban economics, Jg. 69, H. 1, S. 103-117. DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2010.08.001
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"This study examines the effect of state minimum wage changes on new and existing business establishments. It employs a refined border approach in conjunction with other differencing methods to control for unobserved heterogeneous area characteristics. The findings suggest that state minimum wage increases deter new establishments from locating in an area, particularly in industries that rely on low-education workforces, such as the retail and manufacturing industries. However, existing establishments, regardless of industry type, are not found to be adversely affected by minimum wage policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The contribution of the minimum wage to U.S. wage inequality over three decades: a reassessment (2010)
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Autor, David H., Alan Manning & Christopher L. Smith (2010): The contribution of the minimum wage to U.S. wage inequality over three decades. A reassessment. (NBER working paper 16533), Cambridge, Mass., 68 S. DOI:10.3386/w16533
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"We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables that inflate impact estimates via an analogue of the well known division bias problem. We find that erosion of the real minimum wage raises inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large as those reported in the literature and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects of the minimum wage on points of the wage distribution extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. We structurally estimate these spillovers and show that their relative importance grows as the nominal minimum wage becomes less binding. Subsequent analysis underscores, however, that spillovers and measurement error (absent spillovers) have similar implications for the effect of the minimum on the shape of the lower tail of the measured wage distribution. With available precision, we cannot reject the hypothesis that estimated spillovers to non-binding percentiles are due to reporting artifacts. Accepting this null, the implied effect of the minimum wage on the actual wage distribution is smaller than the effect of the minimum wage on the measured wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The contribution of the minimum wage to U.S. wage inequality over three decades: a reassessment (2010)
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Autor, David H., Alan Manning & Christopher L. Smith (2010): The contribution of the minimum wage to U.S. wage inequality over three decades. A reassessment. (CEP discussion paper 1025), London, 70 S.
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"We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors-in-variables that inflate impact estimates via an analogue of the well known division bias problem. We find that erosion of the real minimum wage raises inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large as those reported in the literature and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects of the minimum wage on points of the wage distribution extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. We structurally estimate these spillovers and show that their relative importance grows as the nominal minimum wage becomes less binding. Subsequent analysis underscores, however, that spillovers and measurement error (absent spillovers) have similar implications for the effect of the minimum on the shape of the lower tail of the measured wage distribution. With available precision, we cannot reject the hypothesis that estimated spillovers to non-binding percentiles are due to reporting artifacts. Accepting this null, the implied effect of the minimum wage on the actual wage distribution is smaller than the effect of the minimum wage on the measured wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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