The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment.
Various U.S. states and municipalities raised their mandated minimum wages between 2017 and 2019. In some areas, minimum wages became high enough to bind for more professional workers, such as lower paid staff at nursing facilities. We add to the small prior literature on the effects of minimum wage...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 43; no. 3/4; pp. 345 - 369 |
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Dec2022
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