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Presented By: Department of Economics

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles

The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
What is the impact of the minimum wage on the college wage premium? I develop a theory that implies that the effect should be small on impact—raising only the wages of workers bound by the minimum wage—and grow over time. Guided by my theory, I present evidence that these dynamic effects are present and powerful. Estimated at the national and state levels, I show that minimum wages—together with supply and demand—play a central role in shaping the evolution of the U.S. college premium and that the elasticity of the college premium to the minimum wage is small on impact and grows dramatically over time. To verify my theory’s mechanisms, I additionally document the dynamic impact of the minimum wage over the full wage distribution: on impact, wages rise only for the lowest centiles (consistent with the literature) but over time this effect spills over up the wage distribution (consistent with my theory and my empirical results on the college premium). On the basis of these results, I conclude that the minimum wage plays a central role in shaping the U.S. college premium and its variation across states, in spite of relatively small effects on impact.

This talk is presented by the Labor Economics Seminar, sponsored in part by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Abraham and Thelma Zwerdling Labor Economics Program.

This talk is presented by the International Economics Seminar, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Economics Strategic Fund.
The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage

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