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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1991
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w3859
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1 Online-Ressource
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English
DOI:
10.3386/w3859
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We construct a panel data set on state-level minimum wage laws and economic conditions to reevaluate existing evidence on minimum wage effects on employment, most of which comes from time-series data. Our estimates of the elasticities of teen and young-adult employment-to-population ratios fall primarily in the range -0.1 to -0.2, similar to the consensus range of estimates from time-series studies. We also find evidence that youth subminimum wage provisions enacted by state legislatures have moderated the disemployment effects of minimum wages