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| 100 | 1 | _aClemens, Jeffrey. | |
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_aUnderstanding “Wage Theft”: _bEvasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases / _cJeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2020. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w26969 |
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| 500 | _aApril 2020. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aA holistic assessment of the labor market effects of minimum wage regulation requires understanding employer compliance. We investigate how minimum wage increases and the strength of enforcement regimes affect the prevalence of subminimum wage payment. Using the Current Population Survey (CPS), we find strong evidence that higher minimum wages lead to a greater prevalence of subminimum wage payment. We estimate that increases in measured underpayment following minimum wage increases average between 14 and 22 percent of realized wage gains. Furthermore, we provide evidence that these estimates are unlikely to be driven by measurement error in the CPS's wage data, which are self-reported. Taken together, we interpret these findings as evidence that minimum wage noncompliance is an important reality in the low-wage labor market. We find some evidence that enforcement regimes mediate both baseline rates of subminimum wage payment and the response of subminimum wage payment to increases in minimum wages. | |
| 530 | _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers | ||
| 538 | _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aPrint version record | |
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_aJ08 - Labor Economics Policies _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aJ38 - Public Policy _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aK42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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| 700 | 1 | _aStrain, Michael R. | |
| 710 | 2 | _aNational Bureau of Economic Research. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w26969. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w26969 |
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_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26969 |
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