TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Addison, John T.
AU  - Blackburn, McKinley L.
AU  - Cotti, Chad
        TI  - Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
        PY  - 2011/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6036
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6036
        AB  - Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three different data sets and the two main estimation strategies for handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of a 'recessionary multiplier.' Minimum wage workers seem to be concentrated in sectors of the economy for which the labor demand response to wage mandates is minimal.
        KW  - geographically-disparate employment trends
KW  - minimum wages
KW  - earnings
KW  - low-wage sectors
KW  - recession
KW  - disemployment
        ER  -