全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16533
来源ID	Working Paper 16533
	The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
	David H. Autor; Alan Manning; Christopher L. Smith
发表日期	2010-11-18
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large as those reported elsewhere and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. However, we show that spillovers and measurement error (absent spillovers) have similar implications for the effect of the minimum on the shape of the lower tail of the measured wage distribution. With available precision, we cannot reject the hypothesis that estimated spillovers to non-binding percentiles are due to reporting artifacts. Accepting this null, the implied effect of the minimum wage on the actual wage distribution is smaller than the effect of the minimum wage on the measured wage distribution.
主题	Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16533
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574208
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David H. Autor,Alan Manning,Christopher L. Smith. The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment. 2010.

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