Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data
Traditional estimates that often find minimum wage disemployment effects include controls for state unemployment rates and state‐ and year‐fixed effects. Using CPS data on teens for the period 1990–2009, we show that such estimates fail to account for heterogeneous employment patterns that are corre...
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| Volume: | 50 |
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| Main Author: |
ALLEGRETTO, SYLVIA A
DUBE, ARINDRAJIT REICH, MICHAEL |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Trade |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2011 WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | Industrial relations (Berkeley) Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 205 - 240 |
| Data of publication: | April 2011 |
| ISSN: |
0019-8676 1468-232X |
| EISSN: |
1468-232X |
| Discipline: | Economics Law |
| Bibliography: |
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts. E‐mail Department of Economics, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley. E‐mail mreich@econ.berkeley.edu The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley. E‐mail We thank Lisa Bell, Maria Carolina Tomás, and Jay Liao for excellent research assistance; Eric Freeman for helpful suggestions; and the Ford Foundation for generous support. adube@econs.umass.edu allegretto@berkeley.edu |
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| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2011 Web of Knowledge Web of Science Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |