Arbeitspapier
Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children
States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in minimum wage jobs, typically have less access to health care and are a growing part of the U.S. labor force. Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy and data drawn from the National Health Interview Survey from the years 2000 - 2015, we examine whether children of low-educated immigrants experience any changes in health or access to care when the minimum wage increases.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12606
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Health Behavior
Health Insurance, Public and Private
Health and Inequality
- Thema
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minimum wage
immigrant children
access to care
health insurance
health
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Averett, Susan L.
Smith, Julie K.
Wang, Yang
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Averett, Susan L.
- Smith, Julie K.
- Wang, Yang
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2019