TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
AU  - Wascher,William
TI  - Evidence on Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Subminimum Wage Provisions From Panel Data on State Minimum Wage Laws
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3859
PY  - 1991
Y2  - October 1991
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3859
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3859.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Neumark
Department of Economics
University of California at Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA  92697
Tel: 949-824-8496
Fax: 949/824-2182
E-Mail: dneumark@uci.edu

William Wascher
Federal Reserve Board
Stop 66
Washington, DC 20551
Tel: 202/452-2812
Fax: 202/452-5296
E-Mail: william.l.wascher@frb.gov
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1992-04-01
AB  - We construct a panel data set on state-level minimum wage laws and economic conditions to reevaluate existing evidence on minimum wage effects on employment, most of which comes from time-series data. Our estimates of the elasticities of teen and young-adult employment-to-population ratios fall primarily in the range -0.1 to -0.2, similar to the consensus range of estimates from time-series studies. We also find evidence that youth subminimum wage provisions enacted by state legislatures have moderated the disemployment effects of minimum wages.
ER  -