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 …

We document two new findings about the industry‐level response to minimum wage hikes.
First, restaurant exit and entry both rise following a hike. Second, there is no change in …

We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting
recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the …

Examining differences across school district boundaries rather than school attendance zone
boundaries has several advantages. These advantages include being applicable when …

This paper investigates the effects of minimum wage (MW) policies on entrepreneurship by
using all contiguous county-pairs in China that straddle prefecture borders. We find that the …

This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity,
monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education …

Residents of neighborhoods with limited access to grocery stores may face barriers to
obtaining adequate food for a healthy diet. Low‐income elderly may be uniquely affected by …

This paper examines the job creation effects of state and local non-tax incentives for capital
investment, which are relatively understudied in the literature. The paper's primary …

Despite a large minimum wage literature that analyzes employee outcomes, there is less
evidence on firm performance, prices, and quality. Exploiting staggered changes in US …

Abstract Dube, Lester and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation
correlated with economic shocks generates spurious evidence that higher minimum wages …