Education and the minimum wage in the United States

Christos Pargianas ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 7, 447-450

Abstract: This article shows that, across the US states, the level of education has a causal effect on the minimum wage. More specifically, it argues that a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of college graduates implies a 0.4–0.5% decrease in the real value of the minimum wage. This is the first article that uses System GMM in order to examine the effect of education on the minimum wage. Given the structure of the available data, this is the most appropriate econometric technique. System GMM not only controls for endogeneity and for fixed effects but also maximizes the precision of the estimates by using all the available variation in the data.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1332738

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