The Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Canada: A Panel Study

Minimum Wage Impacts on Older Workers: Longitudinal Estimates from Canada

“…2. Variants of the 'at-risk' methodology have been used in Abowd et al (2000), Ashenfelter and Card (1981), Campolieti et al (2005a,b), Currie and Fallick (1996), Linneman (1982), Yuen (2003), and Zavodny (2000). 3.…”

The New Minimum Wage Research

“…Two other serious criticisms, one for each set of authors, have also been raised: 1) against the quasiexperiment framework of Card andKrueger (1994, 2000), that the focus is too local to be robustly generalized; and 2) against the sparely specifi ed equations that Neumark and Wascher used to analyze national panels, that control for confounding variables are inadequate so that the effects of other factors are falsely attributed to the minimum wage. Over the last decade, beginning with Yuen (2003) and continuing most recently through Allegeretto, Dube, and Reich (2011), several researchers have developed approaches that combine the best elements of each-national scope and careful design-to precisely identify the consequences of minimum wage policy.…”

Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of an Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands

“…Being subject to the reduced minimum wage, the youth job seekers become more desirable for firms, and therefore more likely to find a job which fits their level of skills and experience. Indeed, several empirical studies provide evidence of the positive effects of an age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment (Yuen, 2003, Neumark and Wascher, 2004, Shannon, 2011, and Dickens, Riley, and Wilkinson, 2014. However, what they fail to address is that apart from the effect on employment stocks, this policy design fundamentally changes the youth labor market flows, introducing new dynamics into the decision making of both employers and employees.…”

“…Neumark and Wascher (2004) use a cross-national analysis to show that the presence of a youth subminimum wage rate reduces the negative employment effects of a minimum wage among young workers. Yuen (2003) and Shannon (2011) study the effects of the abolition of the youth subminimum wage rate in several Canadian states, finding mixed evidence of the disemployment effects among their youth workforce. Very close to the focus of this paper is the study of Dickens, Riley, and Wilkinson (2014) who analyze the British variant of the age-dependent minimum wage system, focusing on the discontinuity which occurs on workers' 22nd birthdays.…”