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Do Minimum Wages Reduce Job Opportunities For Blacks?

Nov 21, 2024 | hoover.org | David Neumark |Jyotsana Kala

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Do Minimum Wages Reduce Job Opportunities for Blacks?

Nov 14, 2024 | nber.org | David Neumark |Jyotsana Kala

This research was partially supported by the International Center for Law & Economics. We are grateful to Daniel Firoozi for research assistance, and to seminar participants at CESifo for helpful comments. Any views expressed are our own. Neumark is also a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a research associate of the NBER, CESifo, and IZA. Kala is a Ph.D. candidate at UCI.
Blinder Misrepresents Minimum Wage Studies

Sep 4, 2024 | hoover.org | David Neumark

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Too Much of a Good Thing? How Narrow Targeting and Policy Interactions Influence Responses to California’s EITC

Aug 29, 2024 | nber.org | David Neumark |Zeyu Li

Neumark is Professor of Economics at UCI, a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a research associate at the NBER. Li is a Ph.D. student at UCI. We are grateful to Robert Moffitt for helpful comments. Any views expressed are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Related
California’s Crazy ‘Fast Food’ Minimum Wage Takes Effect

Apr 1, 2024 | hoover.org | David Neumark

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Opinion | California’s Crazy ‘Fast Food’ Minimum Wage Takes Effect

Mar 31, 2024 | wsj.com | David Neumark

California Gov. Gavin Newsom ’s higher minimum wage for fast-food workers takes effect Monday. On top of California’s already high $16 minimum wage, the minimum wage for fast-food workers will increase to $20 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the U.S.Minimum-wage advocates parrot the claim that this is a win for fast-food workers. They cite a few studies to argue that those workers will earn more and suffer no job loss, and that poverty will fall.
The effects of minimum wages on (almost) everything? A review of recent evidence on health and related behaviors

Feb 6, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | David Neumark

“More than a decade's worth of research indicates that increasing the minimum wage is an effective means of improving public health across many settings…” (American Public Health Association, 2016) 1 INTRODUCTION The effects of minimum wages on employment, wages, earnings, and incomes have been studied and debated for decades (see, e.g., Neumark & Shirley, 2022; Neumark & Wascher, 2008).