TY  - JOUR
AU  - Abowd,John M.
AU  - Kramarz,Francis
AU  - Lemieux,Thomas
AU  - Margolis,David N.
TI  - Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6111
PY  - 1997
Y2  - July 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6111
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6111.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John M. Abowd
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
261 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607/255-8024
Fax: 866/873-9078
E-Mail: John.Abowd@cornell.edu

Francis Kramarz
CREST-INSEE
15 blvd Gabriel Peri
Malakoff CEDEX, 92245
FRANCE
E-Mail: kramarz@ensae.fr

Thomas Lemieux
Department of Economics
University of British Columbia
#997-1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
Tel: 604/822-2092
Fax: 604/822-5915
E-Mail: thomas.lemieux@ubc.ca

David N. Margolis
M1  - published as John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Thomas Lemieux, David N. Margolis. "Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States ," in David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman, editors, "Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries" University of Chicago Press (2000)

M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1998-04-01
AB  - We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-…-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition rates.  We" find that movements in both French and American real minimum wages are associated with relatively important employment effects in general, and very strong effects on workers employed at the minimum wage.  In the French case, albeit imprecisely estimated, a 1% increase in the real minimum wage decreases the employment probability of a young man currently employed at the minimum wage by 2.5%.  In the United States, a decrease in the real minimum of 1% increases the probability that a young man employed at the minimum wage came from nonemployment by 2.2%.  These effects get worse with age in the United States, and are mitigated by eligibility for special employment promotion contracts in France.
ER  -