After nearly a decade of relative quiet, the increases in the US minimum wage that began in
1990 have coincided with a renewed interest in its effects. Recent work suggests that a …

This paper reviews the findings of more than 150 studies on the impacts of four types of
labor market institutions: minimum wages, employment protection regulation, unions and …

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level
minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in …

The disagreement among studies on the employment effects of minimum wages in the
United States is well known. Less well known, and more puzzling, is the absence of …

The earnings difference between white and black workers fell dramatically in the United
States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This article shows that the expansion of the …

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers from more than five
hundred thousand employing firms. We decompose real total annual compensation per …

Spatial wage disparities can result from spatial differences in the skill composition of the
workforce, in non-human endowments, and in local interactions. To distinguish between …

The received wisdom tells us that the rigidity and inflexibility of European job markets
relative to that in the United States is the reason why Europe has high unemployment. This …

School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany,
Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …