Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

Erzo F.P. Luttmer

NBER Working Paper No. 13012
Issued in April 2007

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I would like to thank David Cutler, Thomas DeLeire, Martin Feldstein, Edward Glaeser, Caroline Hoxby, Lawrence Katz, Ellen Meara and seminar participants at Harvard and Chicago for suggestions and helpful discussions. I would like to thank Andra Hibbert for excellent research assistance. Financial support from the Olin Foundation and the National Institute on Aging through Grant Number T32-AG00186 is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are my own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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