最低工资
低工资
工资
劳动经济学
经济
工作满意度
不平等
工资份额
工作(物理)
分布(数学)
人口经济学
效率工资
管理
工程类
数学分析
机械工程
数学
作者
Adam Storer,Adam Reich
出处
期刊:Socio-economic Review
[Oxford University Press]
日期:2019-02-27
卷期号:19 (2): 681-709
被引量:7
摘要
Abstract Policymakers concerned with economic inequality regularly advocate for laws to increase the minimum wage. The impact of such laws on low-wage employment levels has been studied extensively within the field of labor economics. Yet, the vast majority of this literature has failed to explore how changes in the minimum wage impact the actual experience of low-wage work. We first discuss qualitative evidence that Walmart, the largest low-wage employer in the country, adjusts to minimum wage increases by compressing wages at the lower end of its wage distribution. We then make use of an innovative source of data to explore quantitatively the impact of such compression on workers’ experiences of their jobs at Walmart. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find that a higher minimum wage raises job satisfaction for workers who have worked at the company for under a year, but decreases job satisfaction for longer-term and marginally higher status employees.
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