Careers of Minimum Wage Workers

We thank David Autor, Peter Blair, Jeffrey Clemens, Larry Katz, Jonathan Meer, and Peter Thompson and seminar participants for helpful comments. We thank the Harvard Business School, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation for financial support. The research in this paper was conducted while the authors were Special Sworn Status researchers of the U.S. Census Bureau. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Number 2766. (CBDRB-FY24-P2766-R11520, R11627; CBDRB-FY25-0150, -P2766-R12009, R12124, R12045, R12409, R12621). This research uses data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants SES-9978093, SES-0339191 and ITR-0427889; National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.