scholarly journals Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment: The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bazen ◽  
Vêlayoudom Marimoutou
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Teenage Employment

Minimum Wages and Nascent Entrepreneurship in the US

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kwapisz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Labor Economics ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurship ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Us ◽  
Startup Process

Abstract The effect of minimum wages on employment is one of the most widely studied and most controversial topics in labor economics and public policy but its impact on early startups is poorly understood and under-researched. In this manuscript, we investigate whether minimum wage rates correlate with the probability that a nascent startup hires employees and achieves profitability, a topic that has never been addressed before. We found negative but not significant correlation between the minimum wage rates and a nascent venture’s probability of hiring employees. However, female entrepreneurs were significantly less likely than male entrepreneurs to hire when faced with higher minimum wage rates. For ventures with employees, higher minimum wage rates were correlated with lower probability of achieving profitability vs. quitting the startup process.

scholarly journals Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Card
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
School Enrollment ◽  
Individual State ◽  
State Data ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage ◽  
Teenage Employment

The imposition of a national minimum wage standard provides a natural experiment in which the “treatment effect” varies across states depending on the fraction of workers initially earning less than the new minimum. The author exploits this fact to evaluate the effect of the April 1990 increase in the federal minimum wage on teenagers' wages, employment, and school enrollment. Comparisons of grouped and individual state data confirm that the rise in the minimum wage increased teenagers' wages. There is no evidence of corresponding losses in teenage employment or changes in teenage school enrollment.

Employment Effects of the 2009 Minimum Wage Increase: New Evidence from State-Based Comparisons of Workers by Skill Level

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul D. Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Minimum Wage Increase ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Evidence

Abstract In July, 2009, when the US Federal minimum wage was increased from $6.55 to $7.25, individuals in nearly one-third of all states were unaffected, since the state minimum wage already exceeded $7.25. We use this variation to make comparisons of the employment of low-skill workers with their peers across states and with workers within states who were arguably unaffected by the increase, using DID and DIDID methods. Our data come from the 2009 Current Population Survey, 4 and 5 months before and after the increase. We find little evidence of negative employment effects for teens or less-educated adults. Further control for demographic characteristics and state fixed effects have relatively small effects on the size and significance of estimated effects.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Upah Minimum Provinsi, Investasi dan PDRB Terhadap Penyerapan Tenaga Kerja di Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Sapriansah Ali Nur Iksan ◽  
Zainal Arifin ◽  
Muhammad Sri Wahyudi Suliswanto
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Fixed Effect ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
West Java ◽  
Insignificant Effect ◽  
Average Contribution ◽  
Effect Test

This study aims to describe the contribution and examine the effect of provincial minimum wages, investment and GRDP on labor absorption in Indonesia. The data used in this study uses panel data, namely a combination of time series and cross section, in this study using 34 provinces in Indonesia in 2013-2017. This study uses the Fixed Effect test. The results showed that the highest average contribution of labor absorption was in the province of East Java, investment was in the province of West Java, the provincial GDP and minimum wages were in the province of DKI Jakarta. Meanwhile, the estimation results show that the provincial minimum wage variable has a positive and significant effect on labor absorption, the investment variable has a negative and insignificant effect on labor absorption, while the GRDP variable has a positive and significant effect on labor absorption in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Minimum Wages in Monopsonistic Labor Markets

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Munguia Corella
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Perfect Competition ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Omitted Variables ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Wage Effects ◽  
Teenage Employment ◽  
The U.S

Over the last 30 years, researchers have disputed the mixed evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment in the U.S. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony models to explain their results. However, very few of these studies have empirically tested whether their results are due to monopsonistic characteristics in the labor markets. In this paper, I estimate the effects of the minimum wage for the U.S. under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous effects among different scenarios derived from the monopsony model, and provide a plausible explanation of the mixed results about the minimum wage effects in the literature. My main findings indicate that minimum wages have an elasticity to teenage employment of -0.418 under perfect competition, which is, as expected, much higher than the usual results in the literature. If the monopsony variable is one standard deviation higher than the baseline, it implies a positive change in elasticity between of 0.05. The minimum wage has a positive insignificant effect between 0.04 and 0.29 under full monopsonistic labor markets. The results are consistent among different specifications and controlling for possible external shocks to the monopsony and omitted variables.

The minimum social guarantee of employees’ wages in Russia: 2020-2021

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-490
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Migranova ◽  
Raisa Popova
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extreme Climate ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Set Up

In 2021 the methodological approaches to the assessment of the minimum wage and the subsistence minimum level (SML) undergone significant changes. According to federal law No 473-FZ of December 29, 2020, these minimum social guarantees are to be calculated relative to the median wage (at 42%) and the median per capita income (at 44.2%) for the past year. This article reviews the changes in the minimum social guarantees as regards employees’ wages in Russia and its regions in the past two years. A new methodology for estimating the median wages had not been developed by the start of 2021. According to Law No 473-FZ the federal minimum wage was set using the Pension Fund data at the rate of 12792 rubles per month. The majority of regions used the federal minimum wage as the basis for defining regional minimum wages. A comparative analysis of regional minimum wages in 2020 and 2021 was carried out for two groups of regions, the regions with regular climate conditions and the regions with special (extreme) climate conditions where the regional coefficient for wages is applied. The analysis shows that in 2021 the minimum wage increased by 5,5% compared to 2020 in most regions. The exception is 11 regions of the Russian Federation, where the minimum wage was set at an increased rate compared to the federal level. The article analyses the ratio of the minimum wage and means wage of all employees in 45 regions of the Russian Federation with normal climate conditions and in 16 regions with extreme climate conditions, where a unified rayon coefficient is set up at the territory of the region. The dynamics of this indicator allows for estimating the trends in wage inequality

Employment Effects of Minimum and Subminimum Wages: Panel Data on State Minimum Wage Laws

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Neumark ◽  
William Wascher
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Time Series Studies

Using panel data on state minimum wage laws and economic conditions for the years 1973–89, the authors reevaluate existing evidence on the effects of a minimum wage on employment. Their estimates indicate that a 10% increase in the minimum wage causes a decline of 1–2% in employment among teenagers and a decline of 1.5–2% in employment for young adults, similar to the ranges suggested by earlier time-series studies. The authors also find evidence that youth subminimum wage provisions enacted by state legislatures moderate the disemployment effects of minimum wages on teenagers.

The minimum wage and teenage employment: evidence from time series

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Teenage Employment

scholarly journals Puerto Rico's minimum wage: Revisiting a price floor with bite

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Tucker Omberg
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Synthetic Control ◽  
Wage Elasticity ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage ◽  
Population Ratio ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Price Floor

Abstract Revisiting research from the 1990s from Castillo-Freeman and Krueger, I use the synthetic control method of Abadie et al. to estimate the impact of the most recent increase in the federal minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. I estimate that the employment/population ratio of various groups in Puerto Rico was significantly lower than that of a data-constructed synthetic Puerto Rico which did not raise its minimum wage. Placebo tests on other donor units, time periods, and population groups suggest that a significant portion of this gap is a result of the minimum wage. Groups with greater exposure to the minimum wage, such as teens and restaurant workers, experienced proportionally greater declines in employment. My results suggest an own-wage elasticity of employment in Puerto Rico of −0.68, higher than estimates from the mainland, which suggests that the employment response to minimum wages may be more dramatic at higher relative minimum wages.

The minimum wage and teenage employment: evidence from time series

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Williams ◽  
Jeffrey A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Teenage Employment
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