Unemployment Effects of Minimum Wages

Jacob Mincer

No 39, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Empirical investigation of employment effects of minimum wage legislation is a subject of continuing interest, judging by a growing number of studies. The older studies were concerned mainly with changes in employment in low-wage industries. In the more recent work, attention has shifted to effects on unemployment in low-wage demographic groups, such as teenagers. Despite the statistical difference there is no apparent recognition of a conceptual as well as substantive distinction between minimum wage effects on employment and those on unemployment. The purpose of this paper is to explore the analytical distinction between employment and unemployment effects in the hope of providing some understanding of the observations. Though related empirical work is far from being definitive the findings appear to be informative.

Date: 1974-05
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Published as Mincer, Jacob. "Unemployment Effects of Minimum Wages." Journal of Political Economy, Part II, (August 1976).

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