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The Minimum Wage, Restaurant Prices, and Labor Market Structure

Daniel Aaronson, Eric French and James MacDonald
Journal of Human Resources, July 2008, 43 (3) 688-720; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.43.3.688
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