TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krueger,Alan B.
TI  - The Effect of the Minimum Wage When It Really Bites: A Reexamination of the Evidence from Puerto Rico
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4757
PY  - 1994
Y2  - June 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4757
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4757.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan B. Krueger
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-4046
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: akrueger@princeton.edu
AB  - This paper reinvestigates the evidence on the impact of the minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico.  The strongest evidence that the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment comes from an aggregate time series analysis.  The weakest evidence comes from cross-industry analyses.  The main finding of the paper, however, is that the statistical evidence of a negative employment effect of the minimum wage in Puerto Rico is surprisingly fragile.
ER  -