Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ku, Hyejin
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/716347
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 325-359
• 关键词: employment; unemployment; prices; pay

摘要

I examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously recorded. By employing a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the increase in Florida's minimum wage from $6.79 to $7.21 on January 1, 2009, and worker location on the pre-2009 productivity distribution, I provide evidence consistent with incumbent workers' positive effort responses.