RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Minimum Wage Effects throughout the Wage Distribution
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 425
OP 450
DO 10.3368/jhr.XXXIX.2.425
VO XXXIX
IS 2
A1 David Neumark
A1 Mark Schweitzer
A1 William Wascher
YR 2004
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXIX/2/425.abstract
AB This paper provides evidence on a wide set of margins along which labor markets can adjust in response to increases in the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income. Not surprisingly, the evidence indicates that low-wage workers are most strongly affected, while higher-wage workers are little affected. Workers who initially earn near the minimum wage experience wage gains. Nevertheless, their hours and employment decline, and the combined effect of these changes on earned income suggests adverse consequences, on net, for low-wage workers.