| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29425 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29425 |
| Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages | |
| Ellora Derenoncourt; Clemens Noelke; David Weil; Bledi Taska | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-11-01 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and outsourcing have hampered wage growth in the low-wage sector in the US. In recent years, a number of private employers have opted to institute or raise company-wide minimum wages for their employees, sometimes in response to public pressure. To what extent do wage-setting changes at major employers spill over to other employers, and what are the broader labor market effects of these policies? In this paper, we study recent minimum wages by Amazon, Walmart, Target, CVS, and Costco using data from millions of online job ads; employee surveys; and the CPS. Although the following version of this paper presents evidence that these policies induced wage increases at low-wage jobs at other employers, where the modal response was to match the wage announced by the large retailer, we have discovered a fundamental issue with the methodology used to measure basic spillover impacts. This methodology as well as associated robustness checks used in the paper, which emulated approaches in the larger literature on minimum wage effects, leads to estimated effects that arise from statistical mean reversion. When we apply a series of placebo and related tests and simulations using revised spillover treatment effect estimators, detailed in Appendix A, we do not find evidence of the spillover effects described in the following paper. A revised paper with a full discussion of the problems of the original approach and new results regarding revised estimates of spillover effects is forthcoming. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Labor Market Structures |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29425 |
| 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/587099 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ellora Derenoncourt,Clemens Noelke,David Weil,et al. Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages. 2021. |
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| w29425.pdf（1962KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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