Minimum wage increases and agricultural employment of locals and guest workers

Supported Employment and Social Inclusion – Experiences of Workers with Disabilities in Wage Subsidized Employment in Sweden

Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables? A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been suggested in the liter...

Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics

The voluminous literature on minimum wages offers little consensus on the extent to which a wage floor impacts employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time, through changes in growth rather than an immediate drop in relative employment levels. We show that commonly-used specifications in this literature, especially those that include state-specific time trends, wi...

The Spending and Debt Responses to Minimum Wage Increases;

This paper presents evidence that spending increases more than income, and thus debt rises, in households with minimum wage workers following a minimum wage hike. Furthermore, we show that the size, timing, persistence, and composition of spending is inconsistent with the basic certainty equivalent life cycle model as well as simple “rule of thumb” models where consumption is equal to a fractio...

Why Minimum Wage Hikes May Not Reduce Employment

may accept findings that minimum wage increases do not adversely affect employment, but economists question them. Critics have charged that the studies use poor data or incorrect methodologies. Some economists also argue that no convincing theoretical model predicts that minimum wage increases do not reduce employment. Many of these economists believe that low-wage labor markets are instead cha...