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标题：Do Low-Income Families Benefit from Minimum Wage Increases? Evidence from State-Level Minimum Wage Laws
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作者：Partridge, Mark ; Partridge, Jamie S.
期刊名称：The Review of Regional Studies
印刷版ISSN：0048-749X
电子版ISSN：1553-0892
出版年度：1999
卷号：29
期号：1
页码：37-50
出版社：Southern Regional Science Association
摘要：Several recent studies contend that falling real minimum wage rates are an important factor behind rising wage inequality and increasing poverty rates. Other studies find the more conventional result that they have very little influence on poverty and inequality, but these studies are generally based on simulated labor market responses. This study examines the influence of minimum wage rates on poverty rates and family income inequality using state-level minimum wages. The methodology has the key advantage of not requiring simulated labor market responses to minimum wage increases. The results suggest that increases in minimum wage rates and coverage do not reduce poverty rates or income inequality.