JULY 2020
Abstract
• Using the 1980 - 2018 Census CPS, I matched each survey participant’s occupation with a measure of how prone to automation their job is.
• Found that increases in the minimum wage had a small but statistically significant negative relationship on employment for individuals with a high-school education or less.
• Found that increases in the minimum wage had a small but statistically significant negative relationship on employment for individuals with a high-school education or less.
• Replication paper of “People versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs” (Grace Lordan and David Neumark, 2018). New additions include expanded data from 2015 - 2018 and a new Pooled (State-Area) model in each regression.
