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Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
- Arindrajit Dubé, T. Lester, M. Reich
- EconomicsThe Review of Economics and Statistics
- 30 November 2010
We use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. Our approach generalizes the case study…
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
- Arindrajit Dubé, T. Lester, M. Reich
- Economics
- 1 August 2007
We use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. Our approach generalizes the case study…
Do Minimum Wages Really Reduce Teen Employment? Accounting for Heterogeneity and Selectivity in State Panel Data
- Sylvia A. Allegretto, Arindrajit Dubé, M. Reich
- Economics
- 21 June 2010
Traditional estimates of minimum wage 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…
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*
- Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dubé, A. Lindner, Ben Zipperer
- EconomicsThe Quarterly Journal of Economics
- 1 August 2019
We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in-differences approach.…
Corrigendum: Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies: A Response to Neumark, Salas, and Wascher
- Sylvia A. Allegretto, Arindrajit Dubé, M. Reich, Ben Zipperer
- Mathematics
- 1 March 2018
First published February 1, 2017 | Correction Original article: Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, and Ben Zipperer. 2017. Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies: A…
Monopsony in Online Labor Markets
- Arindrajit Dubé, Jeff Jacobs, S. Naidu, Siddharth Suri
- Economics
- 1 March 2018
On-demand labor platforms make up a large part of the “gig economy.” We quantify the extent of monopsony power in one of the largest on-demand labor platforms, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), by…
Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards
- Arindrajit Dubé, E. Kaplan
- Economics
- 28 August 2008
Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s and was associated with lower wages, fewer benefits, and lower rates of unionization. The authors focus on two occupations…
Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
- Arindrajit Dubé, E. Kaplan, S. Naidu
- Economics
- 3 March 2008
We estimate the impact of political coups and top-secret coup planning on asset prices. We use declassified CIA documents and daily stock price data to estimate the effect of private events on asset…
Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows, and Labor Market Frictions
- Arindrajit Dubé, T. Lester, M. Reich
- EconomicsJournal of Labor Economics
- 6 April 2012
We provide the first estimates of the effects of minimum wages on employment flows in the US labor market, identifying the impact by using policy discontinuities at state borders. We find that…
Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
- Arindrajit Dubé
- Economics
- 1 November 2018
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…
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