Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dube, Arindrajit
• 署名单位: University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20170085
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 268-304
• 关键词: poverty; INEQUALITY; raise

摘要

There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom of the distribution. The long-run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.220 and -0.459 across alternative specifications. The long-run minimum wage elasticities for the tenth and fifteenth unconditional quantiles of family income range between 0.152 and 0.430 depending on specification. A reduction in public assistance partly offsets these income gains, which are on average 66 percent as large when using an expanded income definition including tax credits and noncash transfers.