Minimum Wage Impacts from a Prespecified Research Design: Canada 1981-1997

Campolieti, Michele; Gunderson, Morley; Riddell, Chris

doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00424.x

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Minimum Wage Impacts from a Prespecified Research Design: Canada 1981-1997

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 195-216, April 2006

22 Pages Posted: 8 May 2006

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Michele Campolieti

University of Toronto at Scarborough - Division of Management

Morley Gunderson

University of Toronto - Department of Economics

Neumark (2001) used the novel methodology of a prespecified research design to estimate the employment effect of minimum wage changes. We conducted our analysis in the spirit of this methodology based on Canadian data from 1981 to 1997. Our minimum wage elasticities are substantial, typically in the range of -0.14 to -0.44, with -0.30 being a reasonable point estimate, and with the effects being larger after lagged adjustments.

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Campolieti, Michele (Mike) and Gunderson, Morley and Riddell, Chris, Minimum Wage Impacts from a Prespecified Research Design: Canada 1981-1997. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 195-216, April 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=889422 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00424.x