The employment and redistributive effects of reducing or eliminating minimum wage tip credits

David Neumark and Maysen Yen

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023, vol. 42, issue 4, 1092-1116

Abstract: Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits—or minimum wages for restaurant workers—to provide evidence on the potential impacts of eliminating (or reducing) the tip credit. Our evidence points to higher tipped minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without positive earnings effects on those who remain employed sufficiently large to raise total earnings in this sector. And most of our evidence provides no indication that higher tipped minimum wages would be well targeted to poor or low‐income families or reduce the likelihood of being poor or very low income.

Date: 2023
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