Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina

Autores
Abbate, Nicolás; Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
Año de publicación
2023
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In this study, we examine the impact of eight minimum wage increases in Argentina during the early 21st century by analyzing administrative records of registered employment. Utilizing a regression discontinuity design, we compare job separation rates between a group affected by the minimum wage hikes and a control group slightly out of their legal scope. We show that this method improves upon previous methods by reducing the likelihood of Type-I error. Overall, we find that the minimum wage hikes had no significant effect on job separation rates. However, the increases implemented in 2008 resulted in a decrease of 4.8 percentage points (19%) in separations, indicating that the employment effects of minimum wages may not necessarily lead to job loss.
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Ciencias Económicas
Minimum wage
Regression discontinuity design
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
title Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
spellingShingle Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
Abbate, Nicolás
Ciencias Económicas
Minimum wage
Regression discontinuity design
title_short Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
title_full Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
title_fullStr Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
title_sort Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction?: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Abbate, Nicolás
Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
author Abbate, Nicolás
author_facet Abbate, Nicolás
Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
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author2 Jiménez Silva, Bruno Tibaldo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
Minimum wage
Regression discontinuity design
topic Ciencias Económicas
Minimum wage
Regression discontinuity design
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In this study, we examine the impact of eight minimum wage increases in Argentina during the early 21st century by analyzing administrative records of registered employment. Utilizing a regression discontinuity design, we compare job separation rates between a group affected by the minimum wage hikes and a control group slightly out of their legal scope. We show that this method improves upon previous methods by reducing the likelihood of Type-I error. Overall, we find that the minimum wage hikes had no significant effect on job separation rates. However, the increases implemented in 2008 resulted in a decrease of 4.8 percentage points (19%) in separations, indicating that the employment effects of minimum wages may not necessarily lead to job loss.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales
description In this study, we examine the impact of eight minimum wage increases in Argentina during the early 21st century by analyzing administrative records of registered employment. Utilizing a regression discontinuity design, we compare job separation rates between a group affected by the minimum wage hikes and a control group slightly out of their legal scope. We show that this method improves upon previous methods by reducing the likelihood of Type-I error. Overall, we find that the minimum wage hikes had no significant effect on job separation rates. However, the increases implemented in 2008 resulted in a decrease of 4.8 percentage points (19%) in separations, indicating that the employment effects of minimum wages may not necessarily lead to job loss.
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