Minimum Wages and Employment

By P. Lewis. 2006

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Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages, and Non-wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa (2014, background): “Such effects are largely supported by the new minimum wage literature, where, for example, Neumark and Wascher (2007) emphasize that disemployment effects are more likely when aggregate data is analyzed, and particularly so for unskilled workers.”
Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets (2010, unknown): “Can the efficient rationing assumption be justified based on empirical evidence? Evidence of unemployment effects of the US minimum wage is stronger among teenagers and secondary earners (Neumark and Wascher, 2007) who are likely to be more elastic – and hence have a lower surplus – suggesting that ”
Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, unknown): “Although this “new minimum wage research” research has been inﬂuential, it has also been criticized on methodological grounds, most notably by Neumark and Wascher (2007), with a critique of the more recent research in Neumark et al. (2013).”
Employment Effects of the New German Minimum Wage: Evidence from Establishment-Level Microdata (2019, background): “3 are interpreted as large when looking at the direct employment elasticity (Neumark and Wascher 2006), whereas implied elasticities of -0.”
Pre-Event Trends in the Panel Event-Study Design (2019, background): “We may be concerned that states implement minimum-wage increases when demand ηit for labor is strong (Card and Krueger 1995; Neumark and Wascher 2007).”
Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws (2010, unknown): “This is despite the fact that enforcement has been noted to differ widely between developed and developing countries (Neumark and Wascher, 2007).”