Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
By Arindrajit Dubé. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018
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There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom of the distribution. The long-run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between −0.220 and −0.459 across alternative specifications. The long-run minimum wage elasticities for the tenth and fifteenth unconditional quantiles of family income range between 0.152 and 0.430 depending on specification. A reduction in public assistance partly offsets these income gains, which are on average 66 percent as large when using an expanded income definition including tax credits and noncash transfers. (JEL D31, I32, I38, J31, J38)
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science
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- Quantile treatment effects in difference in differences models under dependence restrictions and with only two time periods (2017, background): “There has also been an interest in understanding the effect of minimum wages on the distribution of earnings (Dube, 2013).”
- The effect of education on poverty: A European perspective (2021, background): “Another theme concerns the effects of minimum wages on poverty (see, e.g., Dube (2019); MaCurdy (2015); Neumark et al. (2018)).”