RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Heterogeneous Impact of the Minimum Wage: Implications for Changes in Between- and Within-group Inequality
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 0719-10339R1
DO 10.3368/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1
A1 Tatsushi Oka
A1 Ken Yamada
YR 2021
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2021/08/17/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1.abstract
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.