The debate between structural and reduced-form approaches has generated substantial
controversy in applied economics. This article reviews a recent literature in public …

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 will impact employment …

We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled individuals' employment and income
trajectories following the Great Recession. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data …

This handbook chapter reviews recent developments in the theory of optimal labor income
taxation. We emphasize connections between theory and empirical work that were initially …

There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom
of the distribution. The long-run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly …

This chapter surveys the literature on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor
markets. We describe and critically review the empirical methods in the new minimum wage …

In recent years, the technological advancements embodied by digital technology have
received significant attention from policymakers and researchers because of their profound …

According to Sheldon Danziger and David Ratner, changes in the labor market over the past
thirty-five years, such as labor-saving technological changes, increased globalization …

Considering the implementation of the Social Insurance Law (SIL) as a quasi-natural
experiment, we investigate the impact of labor protection on the digital transformation of …

Policymakers frequently use price regulations as a response to inequality in the markets
they control. In this paper, we examine the optimal structure of such policies from the …