State-Level Estimates of Minimum Wage Effects: New Evidence and Interpretations from Disequilibrium Methods
提出一种非均衡方法，放松了传统研究对最低工资具有约束力和劳动力市场竞争的假设，重新分析州级数据后发现，简单回归可能严重低估最低工资对就业的负面影响。
Research using state-level data to estimate minimum wage effects on employment follows the textbook treatment of minimum wages, assuming that minimum wages are binding and that labor markets are competitive. We present an alternative method of estimating minimum wage effects using similar data that relaxes these assumptions, using a disequilibrium approach. Applying this approach to the data and sample period used in many earlier state-level studies suggests that simple state-level reduced-form estimates of minimum wage effects on employment depend on the sample used, and may badly understate the disemployment effects of a binding minimum wage.