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Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers
Ekaterina Jardim worked on this paper before joining Amazon. We thank the state of Washington’s Employment Security Department for providing access to data. We thank the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the City of Seattle for funding and supporting the Seattle Minimum Wage Study. Partial support for this study came from the Center for Studies in Demography Ecology at the University of Washington.
Minimum-Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle
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Minimum Wage Increases and Low-Wage Employment: Evidence from Seattle
Abstract Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as $11 in 2015 and as much to $13 in 2016. We use Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact. Relative to outlying regions of the state identified by the synthetic control method, aggregate employment at wages less than twice the original minimum, measured by total hours worked, declined.
Minimum Wage Increases and Individual Employment Trajectories
We thank the state of Washington’s Employment Security Department for providing access to data, and Matthew Dunbar for assistance in geocoding business locations. We thank the City of Seattle, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation for funding and supporting the Seattle Minimum Wage Study.
Lessons from Seattle's Courageous Minimum-Wage Experiment | RealClearPolitics
Just because one social experiment appears to be yielding disappointing effects to date is no reason to stop experimenting. Only by trying new ideas and carefully assessing their impacts can we hope to improve the social well-being of the nation.
Lessons from Seattle’s courageous minimum-wage experiment
Just because one social experiment appears to be yielding disappointing effects to date is no reason to stop experimenting. Only by trying new ideas and carefully assessing their impacts can we hope to improve the social well-being of the nation.
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