TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ku, Hyejin
        TI  - Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
        PY  - 2020/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13369
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13369
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - labor productivity
KW  - labor productivity
KW  - effort
KW  - effort
KW  - incentive
KW  - minimum wage
        ER  -