Seattle's local minimum wage and earnings inequality
评估西雅图15美元最低工资法令对工人收入不平等的影响，发现低收入工人间不平等略有下降，但总体收入不平等在法令实施期间大幅上升，原因可能与最低工资法无关。
Abstract During the past 6 years, a wave of local minimum wage laws passed in the United States with policymakers and advocates framing the policy as a means of reducing income inequality. This report evaluates whether one of the first of these efforts, Seattle's $15 minimum wage ordinance, lowered inequality of earnings of workers in the city. I find that inequality among workers who earned less than the city's median wage was modestly reduced, yet overall earnings inequality substantially increased during the period in which the ordinance was phased in, likely for reasons unrelated to the minimum wage law.