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The two sets of minimum wage studies cited most often in debates about raising the minimum wage reach different conclusions.
They said their findings indicate that an entire generation of previous minimum wage studies that found negative effects on jobs is fundamentally flawed.
A classic example of such lies are minimum wage studies that don't account for other trends.
Allegretto SA, Dube A, Reich M, Zipperer B (2013a) Credible research designs for minimum wage studies.
A large body of empirical evidence from minimum wage studies has consistently found that minimum wages have a greater impact on young and low-skilled workers, especially teenagers.
I first estimated a simpler specification that is closer to the standard panel data specification in most of the poverty and minimum wage studies.
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David Card, a labor economist known for his research on the minimum wage, studied the Mariel boatlift, which brought more than a hundred thousand Cubans to Florida in 1980; he found no evidence that the influx had lowered wages in Miami.
The minimum wage study published this month concluded that states that allow ballot initiatives tend to have minimum wage policies that more closely reflect the will of the voters who live there.
The new minimum wage study also found that the gap between voter preferences and actual minimum wage policy was smaller in states that allow citizens to put legislation on the ballot.
For instance, a now-infamous minimum wage study released in 1994 that suggested the policy had increased employment was later debunked in the same academic journal that published it, when serious flaws were found in the data.
First, the estimated elasticity from the usual minimum wage study typically understates the elasticity of demand for affected workers because not all workers included in the study are affected.
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