The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous...
Main Authors: | Autor, David H., Manning, Alan, Smith, Christopher L. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association (AEA)
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103999 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-9381 |
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