NJ and PA Once Again: What Happened to Employment When the PA–NJ Minimum Wage Differential Disappeared?
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Nj and Pa Once Again: What Happened to Employment When the Pa-nj Minimum Wage Differential Disappeared?
Card and Krueger’s analysis of the impact of the 1992 increase in the NJ state minimum wage on employment in fast-food restaurants in NJ and PA is very well known. In 1996 and 1997, the federal minimum wage was increased from $4.25 to $5.15, thereby increasing the minimum wage by $0.90 in PA but by just $0.10 in NJ. We use CPS data to examine the impacts of this increase on employment of likely...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eastern Economic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0094-5056,1939-4632
DOI: 10.1057/eej.2008.1