Impacts of minimum wages: Page 1 1 Contents Executive summary 2 Chapter 1 Introduction –
motivation for a minimum wage, and current policy context 6 Chapter 2 Who would be affected by …

This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to
minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash …

Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as 11in2015andasmuchas 13 in 2016. We use
Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact …

Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated
sharply in recent years. While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum …

Minimum wage levels are rising around the globe. To shed more light on the possible
unintended side effects of higher wage floors, we study the impact of a minimum wage …

We explore whether minimum wage increases result in substitution from lower-skilled to
slightly higher-skilled labor. Using 2011–16 American Community Survey (ACS) data, we …

This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In
a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium-and …

We study workers who are employed by a large US retailer, work in many store locations,
and are paid based on performance. By means of a border-discontinuity analysis, we …

The new conventional wisdom holds that a large increase in the minimum wage would be
desirable policy. Advocates for this policy dismiss the traditional concern that such an …

Children in low socioeconomic status (SES) families are five times more likely to experience
child maltreatment relative to children in high SES families. To determine whether increasing …