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| Michael Reich
June 22, 2020, Paper: "Empirical work on the minimum wage typically estimate effects averaged across high and low wage areas. Low wage labor markets could potentially be less able to absorb minimum wage increases, in turn leading to more negative employment effects. In this paper we examine minimum wage effects in low wage counties, where relative minimum wage ratios reach as high as .82, well beyond the state-based ratios in extant studies.…
| Michael Reich
The Ups and Downs of Minimum Wage Policy: The Fair Labor Standards Act in Historical Perspective. Michael Reich, September 11, 2015, Paper. "I provide here a historical overview of the impact of minimum wage legislation enacted over 75 years ago in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 and as amended subsequently on numerous occasions. Given elected officials' caution today about raising the minimum wage in bad economic times, the timing…
| Michael Reich
The Effects of Minimum Wages on Food Stamp Enrollment and Expenditures. Michael Reich, March 5, 2014, Opinion, "How do minimum wage policy increases affect enrollments and expenditures on means-tested public assistance programs? In this report we address this question for the case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program. By definition, government spending on a means-tested program…