TY - JOUR
T1 - Heterogeneous impact of the minimum wage
T2 - implications for changes in between-and within-group inequality
AU - Oka, Tatsushi
AU - Yamada, Ken
N1 - Funding Information:
Tatsushi Oka is an associate professor of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University. Ken Yamada is a professor of economics at Kyoto University ([email protected]). The authors are grateful to Garry Barrett, Richard Blundell, Iván Fernández-Val, Hidehiko Ichimura, Kengo Kato, Edward Lazear, David Neumark, Whitney Newey, Ryo Okui, Jesse Rothstein, Aloysius Siow, an anonymous referee, and conference and seminar participants in Advances in Econometrics Conference, Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics Inaugural Conference, Asian Conference on Applied Microeconomics, Econometric Society Asian Meeting, International Association for Applied Econometrics Annual Conference, Kansai Labor Economics Workshop, Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics, Mini-conference in Microeconometrics, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, Trans Pacific Labor Seminar, Seoul National University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, University of Melbourne, and University of Sydney for comments, questions, and discussions. Oka gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects (project DP190101152). Yamada gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Kyoto University Foundation, the Murata Science Foundation, and JSPS KAKENHI grant number: 17H04782. Data and replication files are available as an additional Online Appendix of Replication Materials.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the United States, most of the workers who earn at or below the minimum wage are either less educated, young, or female. We examine the extent to which the minimum wage influences the wage differential among workers with different observed characteristics and the wage differential among workers with the same observed characteristics. Our results suggest that changes in the real value of the minimum wage account in part for the patterns of changes in education, experience, and gender wage differentials and for most of the changes in within-group wage differentials for workers with lower levels of experience.
AB - In the United States, most of the workers who earn at or below the minimum wage are either less educated, young, or female. We examine the extent to which the minimum wage influences the wage differential among workers with different observed characteristics and the wage differential among workers with the same observed characteristics. Our results suggest that changes in the real value of the minimum wage account in part for the patterns of changes in education, experience, and gender wage differentials and for most of the changes in within-group wage differentials for workers with lower levels of experience.
KW - Minimum wage
KW - wage inequality
KW - censoring
KW - quantile regression
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146339777&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3368/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1
DO - 10.3368/jhr.58.3.0719-10339R1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146339777
SN - 0022-166X
VL - 58
SP - 335
EP - 362
JO - The Journal of Human Resources
JF - The Journal of Human Resources
IS - 1
ER -
