The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
By Alan Manning. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016
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It is hard to find a negative effect on the employment effect of rises in the minimum wage: the elusive employment effect. It is much easier to find an impact on wages. This paper argues the elusive employment effect is unlikely to be solved by better data, methodology, or specification. The reasons for the elusive employment effect are the factors contributing to why the link between higher minimum wages and higher labor costs are weaker than one might think and because imperfect competition is pervasive in the labor market.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs* (2019, unknown): “…ic.oup.com /qje/article-abstract/134/3/1405/5484905 by guest on 17 O ctober 2019 and the new minimum wage.32 To calculate the former we use the ratio of the minimum wage to the median wage, also known as the Kaitz index (e.g., Lee 1999; Dube 2014; Autor, Manning, and Smith 2016; Manning 2016).”
- Cluster-robust inference: A guide to empirical practice (2022, background): “Manning (2021) explores why the evidence on employment effects is mixed.”