Examining the association of changes in minimum wage with health across race/ethnicity and gender in the United States [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The minimum wage creates both winners (through wage increases) and—potentially—losers (through job losses). Research on the health effects of minimum wage policies has been sparse, particularly across gender and among racial/ethnic minorities.
Kimberly Danae Cauley Narain +1 more
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State Minimum Wage Increases As a Potential Policy Lever to Reduce Black?White Disparities in Hypertension [PDF]
Health Equity, 2023 Introduction: Black adults are disproportionately burdened by hypertension. Income inequality is associated with elevated risk of hypertension. Minimum wage increases have been explored as a potential policy lever to address the disparate impact of ...
Brown-Podgorski BL +2 more
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF A HIGH NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1966 FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT. [PDF]
J Labor Econ, 2021 This paper examines the short- and longer-term economic effects of the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which increased the national minimum wage to its highest level of the twentieth century and extended coverage to an additional 9.1 million ...
Bailey MJ, DiNardo J, Stuart BA.
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Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading
Journal of Labor Economics, 2020 We explore whether minimum wage increases result in substitution from lower-skilled to slightly higher-skilled labor. Using 2011–16 American Community Survey (ACS) data, we show that workers employed in low-wage occupations are older and more likely to ...
Jeffrey Clemens +2 more
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Minimum Wage Companies in the Second Wave of the Corona Crisis [PDF]
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2021 For a number of reasons, businesses affected by minimum wage may have a particularly hard time during the coronavirus pandemic. We have found that minimum wage establishments were more frequently affected by the Corona pandemic than the rest of the ...
Christian Kagerl, Clemens Ohlert
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Minimum wage standard adjustment and employment: Heterogeneity effects on the human capital investment [PDF]
HeliyonConsiderable debate has arisen around the potential effects of increasing the minimum wage on employment. This study aims to analyze the impact of changes in China's minimum wage standard on employment.
Lin Ling +3 more
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Do minimum wage laws affect those who are not covered? Evidence from agricultural and non-agricultural workers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Some employers are not obligated to pay at least minimum wages to all employees. U.S. farm employers comprise one of these groups. Employees of large farms and H-2A workers (lawfully admitted, nonimmigrant workers performing temporary or seasonal ...
Maoyong Fan, Anita Alves Pena
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Minimum wage and employment: a gender perspective for Mauritius [PDF]
Journal of Business and Socio-Economic Development, 2023 Purpose – This paper aims to examine the employment effect of the minimum wage in Mauritius, a country that has recently introduced an economy-wide national minimum wage.
Varuna Dreepaul-Dabee +1 more
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A First Glance at the Minimum Wage Incidence in Lithuania Using Social Security Data*
Ekonomika, 2021 This document explores the incidence of the minimum wage in Lithuania. The descriptive analysis exploits high-frequency data on monthly labor income coming from Social Security records between July 2013 and July 2020 to characterize (i) the evolution of ...
Jose Garcia-Louzao, Linas Tarasonis
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Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021 We investigate the wage, employment and reallocation effects of the introduction of a nationwide minimum wage in Germany that affected 15% of all employees. Based on identification designs that exploit variation in exposure across individuals and local
C. Dustmann +4 more
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