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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Unemployment Duration: Estimating the Effects Using the Displaced Worker Survey
Author(s) -
PEDACE ROBERTO,
ROHN STEPHANIE
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2010.00625.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , duration (music) , economics , labour economics , displaced workers , demographic economics , job loss , economic growth , art , literature
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on unemployment duration. Our estimates suggest that higher minimum wages are associated with shorter unemployment duration for older males and those with at least a high school diploma, but longer unemployment spells for male high school dropouts and females who are older and in lower‐skilled occupations. The results are consistent with other studies in generating concerns about the distributional impact of minimum wages.