Does a high minimum wage spur low-skilled emigration?

Darius Martin and Ali Termos

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 137, issue C, 200-202

Abstract: We investigate the migration response to state and local variation in minimum wages in the United States. We find that a one dollar difference between two areas’ real minimum wage is associated with 3.1% more migration of low-skilled workers towards the location with the lower minimum wage. The minimum wage does not influence the migration decisions of high-skilled workers.

Keywords: Minimum wage; Migration; Fractional logit model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J38 J61 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.027

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