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Title: Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. Marcus, Alan J. |
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Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 61-93 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: JAI Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Census of Population; Employment; High School; Minimum Wage; Schooling; Teenagers This analysis of the statewide data on white male and female teenagers from the l970 Census of Population and the l966 NLS data for nonwhite male teenagers yields conflicting evidence. The former suggest that the effect of minimum wage changes on teenagers' educational decisions is small, and that the major effect of the changes is to redistribute jobs from the children of the poor to the children of the nonpoor. The latter suggest that such changes induce a shift from full-time schooling to full-time employment for nonwhite male teens from low-income families. While coherent explanations can be provided for each of these results, confidence in them would have been increased if the various data bases had yielded similar findings. |
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G. and Alan J. Marcus. "Minimum Wage Legislation and the Educational Outcomes of Youth." Research in Labor Economics 3 (1980): 61-93.
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