The Employment Effects of Minimum Wages

Effects of minimum wage on workers' on-the-job effort and labor ...

This paper studies the effect of minimum wage on workers' on-the-job effort and resulting labor market consequences.

Minimum Wage Effects on Employment, Substitution, and the ...

The conclusion that a moderately binding minimum wage can lead to an increase in employment is consistent with several models that incorporate labor market ...

Effects of the Minimum Wage - on Employment Dynamics 0 - jstor

The question of how a minimum wage affects employment remains one of the most widely studied—and most controversial—topics in labor economics, with a.

10.2 The Effects of a Minimum Wage

The Imposition of a Minimum Wage · The amount of labor hired in the market decreases. In our example, the number of unskilled workers employed decreases from ...

Employment Effects of Minimum Wages - Richard A. Lester, 1960

Revisiting the Minimum Wage—Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby w... ... The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hou... ... The ...

The employment effects of minimum wage across heterogenous ...

The employment effect of minimum wage has been a disputed topic in labour economics for a long time. Some studies find that minimum wage has either a ...

Employment effects of minimum wages - IDEAS/RePEc

Abstract. The potential benefits of higher minimum wages come from the higher wages for affected workers, some of whom are in low-income families. The potential ...

Does a Minimum Wage Help Workers?

As low-income earners lose their jobs, inequality will widen. Furthermore, minimum wage increases can pump up the overall wage structure, leaving income ...

The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment - DOI

The results consistently point to negative effects of the minimum wage on employment for the sample as a whole. For our baseline specification, the estimated ...

Employment effects of minimum wages - EconStor

If minimum wages destroy jobs for low-skill workers, that creates winners and losers. Whether a minimum wage reduces poverty or helps low-income families then ...

(PDF) The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and ...

In this paper we present a theoretical framework which is general enough to allow minimum wages to have the conventional negative impact on employment.

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 ...

The Employment Effect of an Increase in the National Minimum Wage

Together, these international experiences suggest that both the pace and the size of the increase matter: large, rapid increases in the minimum ...

The effects of minimum wages on employment - Fed in Print

Abstract: The minimum wage has gained momentum among policymakers as a way to alleviate rising wage and income inequality. Much of the debate over this policy ...

Minimum Wage and its Effect on Employment - RIETI

An increase in the minimum wage is likely to contribute to alleviating the income disparity by increasing wages of low-paid workers, yet it also has the ...

What Happens to Worker Productivity after a Minimum Wage ...

Broadly, the study found that a higher minimum wage led to greater productivity. “Employees work harder per hour,” Persico says. “They sell more ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

This paper shows that more highly concentrated labor markets experience more positive employment effects of the minimum wage.

What Difference Does a Minimum Wage Make? | Richmond Fed

Broadly, the literature suggests limited aggregate employment effects but a negative employment effect for workers earning at or below the minimum wage prior to ...

Minimum Wages and Employment - Now Publishers

In the aftermath of this exchange, other economists began to accumulate empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage, with much of this research ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

Minimum Wage Employment Effects Vary By Labor Market Concentration. A 10% rise in the minimum wage boosts employment by ~3.5% in highly concentrated markets ...