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Title: The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth: Evidence from the NLSY
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Currie, Janet Fallick, Bruce C. |
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The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth: Evidence from the NLSY Journal of Human Resources 31,2 (Spring 1996): 404-428. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/146069 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Employment, Youth; Minimum Wage; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Wage Dynamics; Wage Rates; Wages; Work Hours/Schedule Using panel data on individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the authors find that employed individuals who were affected by the increases in the federal minimum wage in 1979 and 1980 were about 3 percent less likely to be employed a year later, even after accounting for the fact that workers employed at the minimum wage may differ from their peers in unobserved ways. |
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Currie, Janet and Bruce C. Fallick. "The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth: Evidence from the NLSY." Journal of Human Resources 31,2 (Spring 1996): 404-428.
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