Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate Using Univariate Regressions

This paper finds an insignificant negative correlation between youth employment and minimum wages for the panel of U.S. states, 1976-2015. Such a correlation is not observed in earlier panels. The source of the new results is traced to the greatest decline in employment-population ratio since the 19...

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Main Author: Xue, Bai
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1355
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2447&context=cmc_theses