PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tatsushi Oka
AU  - Ken Yamada
TI  - Heterogeneous Impact of the Minimum Wage: Implications for Changes in Between- and Within-group Inequality
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1
DP  - 2021 Jan 11
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0719-10339R1
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/08/17/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/08/17/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1.full
AB  - Most of the workers who earn at or below the minimum wage are either less educated, young, or female in the United States. We examine the extent to which the minimum wage influences the wage differential among workers with different observed characteristics and the wage differential among workers with the same observed characteristics. Our results suggest that changes in the real value of the minimum wage account in part for the patterns of changes in education, experience, and gender wage differentials and for most of the changes in within-group wage differentials for workers with lower levels of experience.