The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over ...

Wage Inequality: A Comparative Perspective

and Smith, C. L. (2010), 'The Role of the Minimum. Wage in the Evolution of US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Modest. Re-Assessment', NBER Working Paper ...

Impact of Minimum Wage Policy on Income Inequality - OUCI

However, such an effect can be observed in the income inequality of low-income families. The authors suggest that the minimum wage should be closer to the ...

Heterogeneous Impact of the Minimum Wage

Expectations for the role of the minimum wage in addressing inequality have increased worldwide with concerns over growing inequality in recent ...

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE MINIMUM WAGE AND ...

suite of US federal/state minimum wage policies on our measures of between-group inequality. That we find smaller simulated effects during a particular ...

New Study Highlights Link Between Minimum Wage, Income ...

A new study published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in October reveals a significant interaction between minimum ...

Impacts of the Minimum Wage Policy on Wage Level ... - unu-wider

This paper analyses the role of a Minimum Wage (MW) intervention introduced in 2012 in. Mexico on wage distribution and wage inequality. The study uses cross- ...

Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil.

We show that a minimum wage can have large effects throughout the earnings distribution, using a combination of theory and empirical evidence.

The Raise the Wage Act: Valuing Working People and Advancing ...

Women are close to two-thirds of the workforce in jobs that pay the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour or just a few dollars above it. They ...

Minimum Wages - Urban Institute

“The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S.. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8 (1): 58–. 99.

Wage Inequality and the Stagnation of Earnings of Low-Wage Workers

... Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage. Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment,” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol ...

Minimum Wage is Not Enough - Home - Drexel University

The federal minimum wage has remained stagnant at $7.25 per hour for the past 12 years. While the U.S. minimum wage was never truly a living wage, over time ...

Explaining the Growing Inequality in Wages across Skill Levels

5 According to the first, cheap imports produced by mostly unskilled workers in less developed countries have depressed the wages of unskilled U.S. workers who ...

Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

During the early 1980s, earnings inequality in the U.S. labor market rose relatively uniformly throughout the wage distribution. But this uniformity gave ...

Declining value of the federal minimum wage is a major factor ...

the minimum) on the 50/10 wage gap among women, men, and overall ... The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality. Over ...

The changing nature of wage inequality

By contrast, the more standard labor economics literature focuses on more narrowly defined institutions such as unions, minimum wages and deregulation that ...

The contribution of minimum wages to increasing wage inequality

Recent research has shown the reduction in the minimum wage to be the main cause of the rise in wage dispersion in the lower half of the wage ...

The Role of Firms in Wage Inequality - OECD

About three‑quarters of the wage gap between similarly-skilled women and men reflects pay differences within firms, mainly due to differences in ...

New Evidence from the Seattle Minimum Wage Study

Findings show that inequality among workers who earned less than the city's median hourly wage ($26.42) was reduced modestly as workers in the ...

1 Patrick Belser1 Using wage policy to reduce inequality in the ...

This paper focuses on three mechanisms that can reduce wage inequality: adequate minimum wages systems, collective bargaining over wages, and the implementation ...

Global Wage Report 2016/17 - International Labour Organization

played an important part in the increase in US wage inequality between 1981 and ... income shares, wage inequality, minimum wages and gender pay gaps. The ...