Arbeitspapier
The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment: county-level estimates for the United States
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the difference that we focus on a particular sector rather than demographic group. Our estimated models are consistent with a simple competitive model of the restaurant-and-bar labor market in which supply-and-demand factors affect both the equilibrium outcome and the probability that a minimum wage will be binding in any given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this sector appears to exhibit a downward long-term trend in states that have increased their minimum wages relative to states that have not, thereby predisposing fixed-effects estimates towards finding negative employment effects.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3300
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
- Thema
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Minimum wages
wages and employment
county-level data
spatial trends
Mindestlohn
Gastgewerbe
Wirkungsanalyse
Niedriglohn
Beschäftigungseffekt
Provinz
Regionale Lohnstruktur
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Addison, John T.
Blackburn, McKinley L.
Cotti, Chad D.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2008
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Addison, John T.
- Blackburn, McKinley L.
- Cotti, Chad D.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2008
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