The Employment Effect in Retail Trade of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Increase

Taeil Kim and Lowell Taylor

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1995, vol. 13, issue 2, 175-82

Abstract: This paper considers the labor market effect of California's 1988 minimum wage increase in the retail trade industry. Two sources of variation--county variation and cross-industry variation--are exploited in estimating the effect of the minimum wage change. Both empirical approaches suggest that the textbook economic analysis of minimum wages pertains; employment growth in California's low-wage retail trade sector appears to have been tempered by the minimum wage increase.

Date: 1995
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