Volume 31, Number 2 (Spring) 1996
Currie, Janet, and Bruce C. Fallick. 1996. "The Minimum Wage and the Employment of Youth: Evidence from the NLSY." Journal of Human Resources 31(2):404-428.
Using panel data on individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that employed individuals who were affected by the increases in the federal minimum wage in 1979 and 1980 were about 3 percent less likely to be employed a year later, even after accounting for the fact that workers employed at the minimum wage may differ from their peers in unobserved ways.
Janet Currie is an associated professor of economics at UCLA. Bruce C. Fallick is an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Board of Governors or the staff of the Federal Reserve System. The authors are grateful to Nancy Cole for excellent research assistance. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in November 1996 through October 1999 from the author at Department of Economics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1477.
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