• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
  • Contributor: Ku, Hyejin [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2020
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: M50 ; effort ; labor productivity ; incentive ; J20 ; minimum wage ; J38
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  • Description: We examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously recorded. By employing a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the increase in Florida's minimum wage from $6.79 to $7.21 on January 1, 2009, and worker location on the pre-2009 productivity distribution, we provide evidence consistent with incumbent workers' positive effort responses.
  • Access State: Open Access