The Employment Effect in Retail Trade of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Increase
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Vol. 13 (2) , 175-182
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.1995.10524591
Abstract
In this article, we study the labor-market effect of California's 1988 minimum wage increase in the retail trade industry. Two different approaches to evaluating the minimum wage effects suggest that the textbook economic analysis of minimum wages pertains; employment growth in California's low-wage retail trade sector appears to have been tempered by the minimum wage increase.Keywords
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