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Title: Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. Marcus, Alan J. |
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Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model Journal of Human Resources 17,1 (Winter 1982): 39-58. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145523 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Resources; Minimum Wage; Schooling; Teenagers This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of minimum wage legislation on teenagers' education decisions is asymmetrical across family income classes, with the legislation inducing children from low-income families to reduce their levels of schooling and children from higher- income families to increase their educational attainment. The authors use data from the NLS of Young Men and Young Women, and exploit the fact that, although the minimum wage is fixed at a point in time, its value relative to adult wages varies across areas. Multinomial logit models of teenagers' enrollment-employment outcomes are estimated. The hypothesis appears to be confirmed for white teens; however, the evidence for nonwhites is more ambiguous. |
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Alan J. Marcus. "Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model." Journal of Human Resources 17,1 (Winter 1982): 39-58.
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