@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3300,
            	author={Addison, John T. and Blackburn, McKinley L. and Cotti, Chad},
            	title={The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment: County-Level Estimates for the United States},
            	year={2008},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={3300},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3300},
	abstract={We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the difference that we focus on a particular sector rather than demographic group. Our estimated models are consistent with a simple competitive model of the restaurant-and-bar labor market in which supply-and-demand factors affect both the equilibrium outcome and the probability that a minimum wage will be binding in any given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this sector appears to exhibit a downward long-term trend in states that have increased their minimum wages relative to states that have not, thereby predisposing fixed-effects estimates towards finding negative employment effects.},
	keywords={wages and employment;minimum wages;county-level data;spatial trends},
            }