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3 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Michael Strain |Jeffrey Clemens
AbstractOver the past decade, organized labor has played a significant role in advocating for minimum wage increases. Why might this be, given that the minimum wage may act as a substitute for the bargaining power offered by labor unions? In this paper, we study the interplay between minimum wages and union membership.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
nber.org | Jeffrey Clemens |Julia Payson |Stan Veuger
Skip to main content Thanks to our excellent research assistants Jensen Ahokovi and Beatrice Lee.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de | Jeffrey Clemens
Item Type: MPRA Paper Original Title: Minimum Wage Hikes Bring Tradeoffs beyond Pay and Jobs Language: English Keywords: Minimum Wages; Price Floor Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits ; Retirement Plans ; Private Pensions J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J38 - Public Policy Item ID:...
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
aei.org | Stan Veuger |Jeffrey Clemens |Julia Payson
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented levels of federal aid transfers to state governments. Did this funding increase benefit state incumbents electorally? Identifying the effect of revenue windfalls on economic voting is challenging because whatever conditions led to the influx of cash might also benefit or harm incumbent politicians for a variety of other reasons.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
hoover.org | Jeffrey Clemens
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
aei.org | Stan Veuger |Jeffrey Clemens |Oliver Giesecke |Joshua D. Rauh
By Jeffrey Clemens, Oliver Giesecke, Joshua Rauh, and Stan VeugerAbstractUsing variation in federal pandemic-era fiscal aid to states driven by the strength of political representation, we find that incremental pandemic-era fiscal aid to states was most likely to end up in the categories of general administrative service spending and employee pension benefit funding.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
aei.org | Michael Strain |Jeffrey Clemens
Recent research suggests that wages below legally established minimum wages are surprisingly prevalent. This column reviews ‘wage theft’ in the US and its impact on the wage gains workers might otherwise enjoy. Most firms comply with increases in the minimum wage, especially when they have time to plan for the increase, but evasion and avoidance are also qualitatively important features of the low-wage labour market.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
aei.org | Michael Strain |Jeffrey Clemens
AbstractUsing Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of wage theft — wage payments below the statutory minimum wage — falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find that underpayment rises similarly as a fraction of realized wage gains in the wake of minimum wage increases.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
nber.org | Jeffrey Clemens |Michael Strain
Skip to main content We thank Duncan Hobbs for excellent research assistance. Clemens thanks the Hoover Institution, where he is an Adjunct Senior Fellow during the 2023-2024 academic year. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Related
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
aei.org | Stan Veuger |Jeffrey Clemens |Philip G. Hoxie |John Kearns
AbstractWe estimate whether large allocations of federal aid for state and local governments played a role in advancing population testing for COVID-19 and the administration of vaccines. To overcome biases that can result from the endogeneity of federal aid allocations, we use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on the substantial variation in federal aid predicted by variation in states’ congressional representation.
