| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28506 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28506 |
| Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald\u2019s Restaurants | |
| Orley C. Ashenfelter; Štěpán Jurajda | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-03-01 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use price and wage data from McDonald's restaurants to provide evidence on wage increases, labor-saving technology introduction, and price pass-through by a large low-wage employer facing a flurry of minimum wage hikes from 2016-2020. We estimate an elasticity of hourly wage rates with respect to minimum wages of 0.7. In 40% of instances where minimum wages increase, McDonald's restaurants' wages are near the effective minimum wage level both before and after its increase; however, we also uncover a tendency among a large subset of restaurants to preserve their pay 'premium' above the minimum wage level. We find no association between the adoption of labor-saving touch screen ordering technology and minimum wage hikes. Our data imply that McDonald's restaurants pass through the higher costs of minimum wage increases in the form of higher prices of the Big Mac sandwich. We find a 0.2 price elasticity with respect to wage increases, which implies an elasticity of prices with respect to minimum wages of about 0.14. Based on a listing of all US McDonald's restaurants from 2010 to 2020, we also find no effects of minimum wages on McDonald's restaurant entry and exit. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28506 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586178 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Orley C. Ashenfelter,Štěpán Jurajda. Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-Through: The Case of McDonald\u2019s Restaurants. 2021. |
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| w28506.pdf（891KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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