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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01np1939183
 Title: Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage Authors: Card, David Keywords: minimum wagesemployment demandteenage labor market Issue Date: 1-Mar-1992 Citation: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol 46, No. 1, October 1992 Series/Report no.: Working Papers (Princeton University. Industrial Relations Section) ; 300 Abstract: The imposition of a national wage standard sets up a useful natural experiment in which the "treatment effect" varies across states depending on the fraction of workers earning less than the new minimum. I use this idea to evaluate the effect of the April 1990 increase in the Federal minimum wage on teenage wages, employment, and school enrollment. Interstate variation in teenage wages was high at the end of the 1980s, in part because 16 states had enacted state-specific minimums above the prevailing Federal rate. Comparisons of grouped and individual state data confirm that the rise in the minimum wage significantly increased teenage wages. There is no evidence of corresponding losses in teenage employment or changes in teenage school enrollment. URI: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01np1939183 Related resource: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0019-7939%28199210%2946%3A1%3C22%3AURVIWT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 Appears in Collections: IRS Working Papers

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