Lindner, Attila;
(2024)
The Employment and Distributional Impacts of Nationwide MinimumWage Changes.
Journal of Labor Economics
, 42
(S1)
S293-S333.
10.1086/728471.
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Abstract
We assess the impact of nationwide minimum wages on employment throughout the whole wage distribution by exploiting geographical variation in the level of wages. We find a substantial increase in wages at the bottom of the wage distribution, while we detect a small, statistically insignificant negative effect on employment. Combining the estimated change in the wage distribution with a tax and benefit microsimulation model, we show that the minimum wage generates considerable proportional income gains up to the middle of the household income distribution.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Employment and Distributional Impacts of Nationwide MinimumWage Changes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1086/728471 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1086/728471 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The University of Chicago. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits reuse of the work with attribution. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179041 |
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