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Title: Minimum Wage Careers
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Carrington, William J. Fallick, Bruce C. |
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Minimum Wage Careers NTIS Report PB2000107225, Federal Reserve System, Washington DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Aug. 1999 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Employment; Income Level; Legislation; Minimum Wage This paper investigates the extent to which people spend careers on minimum wage jobs. We find that a small but non-trivial number of National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) spend 25%, 50% or even 75% of the first ten years of their career on minimum or near-minimum wage jobs. Workers with these minimum wage careers tend to be drawn from groups such as women, blacks, and the less-educated that are generally overrepresented in the low-wage population. The results indicate that lifetime incomes of some workers may be supported by a minimum wage. At the same time, these same groups would be disproportionately affected by any minimum wage-induced disemployment. The results suggest that minimum wage legislation has non-negligible effects on the lifetime opportunities of a significant minority of workers. |
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Carrington, William J. and Bruce C. Fallick. "Minimum Wage Careers." NTIS Report PB2000107225, Federal Reserve System, Washington DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Aug. 1999. |