Do minimum wages raise employment? Evidence from the US retail-trade sector


Autoria(s): Addison, John; Blackburn, M.L.; Cotti, C.D.
Data(s)

01/08/2009

Resumo

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on specific subsectors within retail trade that are identified as particularly low-wage. We find little evidence of disemployment effects once we allow for geographic-specific trends. Indeed, in many sectors the evidence points to modest (but robust) positive employment effects. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/do-minimum-wages-raise-employment-evidence-from-the-us-retailtrade-sector(776435d3-92a6-478e-9be8-56a69c3b7db6).html

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2008.12.007

Idioma(s)

eng

Direitos

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Fonte

Addison , J , Blackburn , M L & Cotti , C D 2009 , ' Do minimum wages raise employment? Evidence from the US retail-trade sector ' Labour Economics , vol 16 , no. 4 , pp. 397-408 . DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.12.007

Palavras-Chave #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1400/1407 #Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 #Economics and Econometrics
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article