THE MINIMUM WAGE AND OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY
量化了最低工资对工人职业流动性的影响，发现最低工资降低年轻、低学历工人的职业流动性并加剧错配，通过工资压缩和减少职位空缺两个渠道起作用，模拟表明15美元最低工资使总产出下降0.4%。
Abstract This article quantifies the effect of minimum wages on workers' occupational mobility. I show that minimum wages decrease younger, less‐educated workers' occupational mobility and are associated with more mismatch. A search‐and‐matching model highlights two channels by which the minimum wage decreases occupational mobility. First, it compresses wages and reduces the gain from switching, leading to lower occupational mobility and more mismatch. Second, it decreases vacancy posting. Calibrating the model to the U.S. economy, the results suggest that a 15 dollar minimum wage can damp aggregate output by 0.4%, of which the wage compression channel accounts for 80%.