Impacts of minimum wages: review of the international evidence Page 1 Impacts of minimum wages:
review of the international evidence November 2019 Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts …

Fifty years have passed since the release of the Kerner Commission's findings, conclusions,
and policy recommendations. This article first reviews recent trend and cross-section …

We exploit a large, quasi-randomized, 2.5-year-long income tax holiday to identify
intertemporal labor responses of high-wage earners to net wage changes. In August 2013 …

Economists increasingly refer to monopsony power to reconcile the absence of negative
employment effects of minimum wages with theory. However, systematic evidence for the …

How have US workers fared recently? Broadly speaking, not so well. The employment and
earnings outcomes of most Americans in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century …

This article uses the metaphor of a social contract to review the evolution of American unions
and their effects—especially in the variations in their quality—on firm employment strategies …

Estimating the impact of overtime regulations has been hindered by a lack of policy variation
and high-quality data. This paper uses changes in salary thresholds that determine overtime …

The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act mandates overtime premium pay for most US workers,
but limited variation in the rule has made assessing its labor market impacts difficult. With …

Evidence from the American Time Use Survey 2003–2012 suggests that minority
employees, especially men, spend a small but statistically significant amount of time not …

We investigate wage workers' life satisfaction and job satisfaction changes after the
introduction of reduced work hours using the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study …