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Who Benefits From A Minimum Wage Increase?, John W. Lopresti, Kevin J. Mumford
Who Benefits From A Minimum Wage Increase?, John W. Lopresti, Kevin J. Mumford
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
This paper addresses the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers. Most studies assume that there is a simple mechanical increase in the wage for workers earning a wage between the old and the new minimum wage, with some studies allowing for spillovers to workers with wages just above this range. Rather than assume that the wages of these workers would have remained constant, this paper estimates how a minimum wage increase impacts a low-wage worker’s wage relative to the wage the worker would have if there had been no minimum wage increase. The …