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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers’ pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations ...
Barbara Biasi, Heather Sarsons
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Quarterly Journal of Economics, 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.
Doruk Cengiz +3 more
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Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
, 1993 On April 1, 1992 New Jersey's minimum wage increased from $4.25 to $5.05 per hour. To evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum. Comparisons of the changes
David Card, A. Krueger
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: A Semiparametric Approach
, 1995 This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and labor market factors on recent changes in the U.S. distribution of wages.
John E. Dinardo, N. Fortin, T. Lemieux
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
, 1993 This is the new, fully updated edition of this now-classic study of working-class racism. Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E. P.
D. Roediger
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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 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 with respect to the minimum wage ranges between −0.220 ...
Arindrajit Dubé
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Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
, 1999 A deep question in economics is why wages and salaries don't fall during recessions. this is not true of other prices, which adjust relatively quickly to reflect changes in demand and supply.
T. Bewley
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Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects
, 2005 This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job training programs in the United States.
David S. Lee
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, 1999 We estimate the relative influence of trade versus technology on wages in a "large-country" setting, where technological change affects product prices.
R. Feenstra, Gordon H. Hanson
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Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Journal of Labor Economics, 2019 This paper introduces a spatial equilibrium model that relates earnings, employment, and internal migration responses to minimum wage increases. Population moves to or away from regions that increase minimum wages depending on the labor demand elasticity
Joan Monras
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