After nearly a decade of relative quiet, the increases in the US minimum wage that began in
1990 have coincided with a renewed interest in its effects. Recent work suggests that a …

In a past article in this Review, David Card and Alan B. Krueger (1994) reported evidence
that called into question the conventional view of the labor-market effects of minimum-wage …

On April 1, 1992 New Jersey's minimum wage increased from 4.25to 5.05 per hour. To
evaluate the impact of the law we surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and …

This paper presents a semiparametric procedure to analyze the effects of institutional and
labor market factors on recent changes in the US distribution of wages. The effects of these …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

One of the best-known predictions of standard economic theory is that an increase in the
minimum wage will lower employment of low-wage workers. The evidence that is frequently …

Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985–94 period, we find that more compressed
male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

The newest work from one of the most preeminent voices writing in the legal/political arena
today, this important book presents a new conception of the relationship between free …

We study the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability, exploiting the changes induced
by the introduction of a UK national minimum wage in 1999. We use pre-policy information …