Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data

Ana Rute Cardoso

No 4236, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for the contemporaneous impact of the minimum wage, its long-run impact translates into: an overall wage premium, consistent with an upgrading in the quality of jobs offered; a flatter tenure-earnings profile, consistent with lower initial investment in firm-specific training. Interestingly, the overall wage premium increases with exposure and the tenure-earnings profile is flatter the longer the exposure.

Keywords: career; on-the-job-training; human capital investment; skill formation; long-term; linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J24 J31 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2009-06
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Published - published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380

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