Minimum Wages and Rise of the Robots

We have received helpful comments from seminar participants at the 2025 FSRDC Conference at Cornell. The research was conducted while the authors were Special Sworn Status researchers at the Federal Statistical Research Data Center. Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau or the National Bureau of Economic Research. The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. DRB Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-P2315-R12475. Erik Brynjolfsson is the Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab which is partially funded by a variety of industry, government and nonprofit organizations. He has given over 400 talks, some of which were compensated. He is also a co-founder of Workhelix, Inc.