The Minimum Wage and Annual Earnings Inequality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary V. Engelhardt ◽  
Patrick J. Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Annual Earnings

The minimum wage and annual earnings inequality

2021 ◽  
pp. 110001
Author(s):  
Gary V. Engelhardt ◽  
Patrick J. Purcell
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Annual Earnings

Rising U.S. Earnings Inequality and Family Labor Supply: The Covariance Structure of Intrafamily Earnings

2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean R Hyslop
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Covariance Structure ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
Working Couples ◽  
Annual Earnings ◽  
Family Inequality ◽  
Female Inequality

This paper studies the labor supply contributions to individual and family earnings inequality during the period of rising wage inequality in the early 1980's. Working couples have positively correlated labor market outcomes, which are almost entirely attributable to permanent factors. An intertemporal family labor supply model with this feature is used to estimate labor supply elasticities for husbands of 0.05, and wives of 0.40. This implies that labor supply explains little of the rising annual earnings inequality for married men, but over 20 percent of the rise in family inequality and 50 percent of the modest rise in female inequality. (JEL C23, J22)

scholarly journals Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 128-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Bosch ◽  
Marco Manacorda
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
The Real ◽  
Steep Decline ◽  
Real Value

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all of the growth in inequality in the bottom end of the distribution, is due to the steep decline in the real value of the minimum wage. (JEL J31, J38, O15, O17, O18, R23)

scholarly journals The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
David H. Autor ◽  
Alan Manning ◽  
Christopher L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Earnings Inequality ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Prior Work ◽  
Lower Tail ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
Wage Effects

We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous estimates, suggesting that rising lower tail inequality after 1980 primarily reflects underlying wage structure changes rather than an unmasking of latent inequality. These wage effects extend to percentiles where the minimum is nominally nonbinding, implying spillovers. We are unable to reject that these spillovers are due to reporting artifacts, however. (JEL J22, J31, J38, K31)

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