Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading

We thank Brad Hershbein, Dan Aaronson, and seminar participants at Ben Gurion University, the Brookings Institution, the China Summer Institute of Public Economics at Tsinghua University, Copenhagen Business School Workshop on University Education and Innovation, Cornell University, Duke University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, George Mason University, George Washington University, Joe-Fest 2018, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Tel Aviv University, World Bank, Yale University, and the IFS/CEP Conference on Wages, Labour Market Policy and the Safety Net. We are especially indebted to Dan Restuccia, Matt Sigelman, and Bledi Taska for providing the Burning Glass Technologies data. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.