The contribution of minimum wages to increasing wage inequality

Economic Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 490, 2003, Pages 801-833

  Teulings, Coen N ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN CAPITAL; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MINIMUM WAGE; WAGE DETERMINATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242306845     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.t01-1-00163     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Autor, D. H., Katz, L. F. and Krueger, A. B. (1998). 'Computing inequality: have computers changed the labor market?', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 113, pp. 1169-213.
2. Brown, C., Gilroy, C. and Kohen, A. (1982). 'The effect of the minimum wage on employment and unemployment', Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 20, pp. 487-528.
3. Bound, J. and Johnson, G. (1992). 'Changes in the structure of wages in the 1980s. An evaluation of alternative explanations', American Economic Review, vol. 82(3), pp. 371-92.
4. Card, D. and Krueger, A. (1994). 'Minimum wages and employment: a case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania', The American Economic Review, vol. 84(4), pp. 772-93.
5. Card, D. and Lemieux, T. (1996). 'Wage dispersion, returns to skill, and black-white wage differentials' Journal of Econometrics, vol. 74(2), pp. 319-61.
6. DiNardo, J., Fortin, N. M. and Lemieux, T. (1996). 'Labor market institutions and the distribution of wages, 1973-1992', Econometrica, vol. 64(5), pp. 1001-44.
7. Dolado, J., Kramarz, F., Machin, S., Manning, A., Margolis, D. and Teulings, C. (1996). 'The economic impact of minimum wages in Europe', Economic Policy, vol. 23, pp. 317-72.
8. Flinn, C. (2001). 'Interpreting minimum wage effects on wage distributions: a cautionary tale', Les Annales d'Economie et de Statistique (forthcoming).
9. Fortin, N. M. and Lemieux, T. (1999). 'Rank regressions, wage distributions, and the gender gap' Journal of Human Resources, vol. 33(3), pp. 610-43.
10. Freeman, R. B. (1995). 'Are your wages set in Beijing?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9(3), pp. 15-32.
11. Juhn, C., Murphy, K. M. and Pierce, B. (1993). 'Wage inequality and the rise in the returns to skill'. Journal of Political Economy, vol. 101(3), pp. 410-42.
12. Katz, L. F. and Murphy, K. (1992). 'Changes in relative wages, 1963-1987: supply and demand factors', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107(1), pp. 35-78.
13. Lee, D. S. (1999). 'Wage inequality in the U.S. during the 1980s: rising dispersion or falling minimum wage?', Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 114(3), pp. 941-1023.
14. Meyer, R. H. and Wise, D. A. (1983a). 'Discontinuous distributions and missing persons: the minimum wage and unemployed youth', Econometrica, vol. 51(6), pp. 1677-98.
15. Meyer, R. H. and Wise, D. A. (1983b). 'The effects of the minimum wage on the employment and earnings of youth', Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 1(1), pp. 66-100.
16. Murphy, K. M. and Welch, F. (1990). 'Empirical age-earning profiles', Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 8(2), pp. 202-29.
17. Neumark, D. and Wascher, W. (1992). 'Employment effects of minimum and subminimum wages: panel data on state minimum wage laws', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 46(1), pp. 55-81.
18. Teulings, C. N. (1995). 'The wage distribution in a model of the assignment of skills to jobs', Journal of Political Economy, vol. 103(2), pp. 280-315.
19. Teulings, C. N. (2000). 'Estimation bias in elasticities of substitution and the minimum wage paradox', International Economic Review, vol. 4, pp. 359-98.
20. Teulings, C. N. and Gautier, P.A. (2001). 'The right man for the job '. Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.
21. Wood, A. (1995). 'How trade hurt unskilled workers', Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9(3), pp. 57-80.