TY  - JOUR
AU  - Neumark,David
TI  - The Employment Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Increases:  Evidence from a Pre-specified Research Design
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7171
PY  - 1999
Y2  - June 1999
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7171
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7171.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
AB  - This paper presents evidence on the employment effects of recent minimum wage increases from a pre-specified research design that entailed committing to a detailed set of statistical analyses prior to 'going to' the data.  Despite the limited data to which the pre-specified research design can be applied, evidence of disemployment effects of minimum wages is often found where we would most expect it--for younger, less-skilled workers.
ER  -