- Title
- The Effect of the Minimum Wage When It Really Bites: A Reexamination of the Evidence from Puerto Rico
- Author(s)
- Alan B. Krueger Alan Krueger (Princeton University and NBER)
- Abstract
- This paper reinvestigates the evidence on the impact of the minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. The strongest evidence that the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment comes from an aggregate time series analysis. The weakest evidence comes from cross-industry analyses. The main finding of the paper, however, is that the statistical evidence of a negative employment effect of the minimum wage in Puerto Rico is surprisingly fragile.
- Creation Date
- 1994-05
- Section URL ID
- IRS
- Paper Number
- 330
- URL
- https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp013t945q78d/1/330.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- C23
- Keyword(s)
- workplace, education
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 1