TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Marchingiglio, Riccardo
AU  - Poyker, Mikhail
        TI  - The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation
        PY  - 2024/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17016
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17016
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - labor markets
KW  - minimum wage
KW  - labor demand
KW  - gender gap
        ER  -