%0 Report
        %A Marchingiglio, Riccardo
%A Poyker, Mikhail
        %T The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17016
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17016
        %X Using full count U.S. census data, we study the impact of early 20th-century state-industry-specific minimum wage laws that primarily targeted female employees. Our triple-difference estimates suggest a null impact of the minimum wage laws, potentially reflecting disemployment effects and the positive selection bias of the workers remaining in the labor force. When comparing county-industry trends between counties straddling state borders, female employment is lower by around 3.1% in affected county-industry cells. We further investigate the implications for own-wage elasticity of labor demand as a function of cross-industry concentration, the channels of substitution between men and women, and heterogeneity by marital status.
        %K labor markets
%K minimum wage
%K labor demand
%K gender gap