State Minimum Wages: Long-Term Impacts on the Job Quality of Low-Wage Workers

Research about the impacts of minimum wage increases on workers has primarily relied on analysis of point in time data or data over short periods of time. Economists Sari Kerr and William Kerr will investigate the medium- and longer-term effects of state minimum wage increases on worker career trajectories. They will analyze data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the Current Population Survey, the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics database, the Longitudinal Business Database, and the American Community Survey for their study.