ECIN Replication Package for "Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Indexing: Establishment Evidence from Oregon Restaurants"
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Stephen Miller, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Gary A. Wagner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Alicia Plemmons, West Virginia University
Version: View help for Version V4
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| ECIN-Jun23-0248-replication | 01/01/2025 10:39:AM |
Project Citation:
Miller, Stephen , Wagner, Gary A., and Plemmons, Alicia. ECIN Replication Package for “Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Indexing: Establishment Evidence from Oregon Restaurants.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-01-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208522V4
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Summary:
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This is a replication package with data and code for the paper entitled "Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Indexing: Establishment Evidence from Oregon Restaurants."
Abstract
Abstract
Even though eighteen states will index their minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index by 2025, few studies have examined indexing’s differential employment effects. Leveraging a period of stability in minimum wages (2000-2007) and two distinct national geocoded databases of establishments, we explore how indexing affected employment in Oregon restaurants, one of the earliest indexing states (2003). Nearest-neighbor matching is used as a preprocessing step before regression, pairing individual restaurants in Oregon to restaurants with similar characteristics in states where the minimum wage was unchanged. We find evidence that establishment employment falls 3.6\% after indexing, implying an employment elasticity of -0.18.
Funding Sources:
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None
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
J08 Labor Economics Policies
J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
J08 Labor Economics Policies
J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
Manuscript Number:
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ECIN-Jun23-00248
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