Minimum wage
Accounting for City Size, Minimum Wages Reduce Jobs Almost Everywhere
In new research, Priyaranjan Jha, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez find that studies arguing higher minimum wages have no employment effect—or even a positive effect—in many labor markets fail to account for how much less minimum wages matter in larger, higher-wage cities.
How Practical Are Biden’s Proposals to Promote Labor Market Competition?
A new report from the Biden administration lays out ways to increase competition in US labor markets. Will they work?
A Biden administration report, published...
From Most No-Brainer to Most Complicated: A List of Policy Proposals to Mitigate the Virus’ Impact
Policymakers need to figure out which sectors we wish to keep up and running (food, health care), which sectors we want to contract rapidly...
The Employment Effects of a Gender-Specific Minimum Wage
The first minimum-wage laws in the history of the United States were predominantly gender-specific in that they were imposing a lower bound only on...
