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Restaurant Employment, Minimum Wages, and Border Discontinuities / Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, Akash Bhatt, Denis Sosinskiy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dube, Arindrajit.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w32902.
- NBER working paper series no. w32902
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2024.
- Summary:
- Dube, Lester and Reich (2010), using cross-state border county pairs (BCPs), did not detect restaurant employment losses from higher minimum wages. Jha, Neumark and Rodriguez- Lopez (2024, JNR), using multi-state commuting zones (MSCZs), do find disemployment effects. However, JNR's results are confounded by 1990s-era parallel trends violations amplified by the two-way-fixed-effects (TWFE) model, which is also unreliable for detecting such violations. With post-2000 data, JNR's specification does not indicate substantial disemployment. BCPs are much less affected by such pre-trends than MSCZs. Importantly, modern event study designs (using either MSCZs or BCPs) show no local pre-tends, and find no meaningful employment decline.
- Notes:
- September 2024.
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