The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation.
Using full count US census data, we study the impact of early twentieth-century state-industry-specific minimum wage laws that primarily targeted female employees. Our triple-difference estimates suggest a null impact of the minimum wage laws, potentially reflecting disemployment effects and the pos...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Economics Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 1009 - 1064 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jul2026
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