Using both qualitative and quantitative (meta-analysis) methods, this paper reviews the
growing evidence on the impact of minimum wages on employment in 14 major emerging …

We consider a linear panel event-study design in which unobserved confounds may be
related both to the outcome and to the policy variable of interest. We provide sufficient …

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 …

Labor law is failing. Disfigured by courts, attacked by employers, and rendered inapt by a
global and fissured economy, many of labor law's most ardent proponents have abandoned …

We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional
decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that …

The authors assess the critique by Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) of minimum wage
studies that found small effects on teen employment. Data from 1979 to 2014 contradict …

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs–jobs in
which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people–focusing on low-skilled …

This paper shows that more highly concentrated labour markets experience more positive
employment effects of the minimum wage. In the most concentrated labour markets …

This paper exploits the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in Britain and
subsequent increases in the NMW to identify the effects of minimum wages on productivity …

Even though there is growing social support for higher minimum wages as anti-poverty
policy tools, very little is known about their effectiveness in reducing poverty or inequality in …