; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "The Distributional Impact of the Minimum Wage in the Short and Long Run"; ; "kate.s.hansel@mpls.frb.org"; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis"; "Monopsony", "Putty-clay capital", "Employment", "Wages", "Labor market participation", "Earned income tax credit", "Progressive tax and transfer system", "Labor income", "Unemployment", "Monopsonistic competition", "Search frictions", "Redistribution", "Inequality"; "J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search", "J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply", "D33 - Factor Income Distribution", "E24 - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity", "E62 - Fiscal Policy", "J69 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Other", "J23 - Labor Demand", "J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials"; "We develop a framework with rich worker heterogeneity, firm monopsony power, and putty-clay technology to study the distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run. Our production technology is disciplined to be consistent with the small estimated employment effects of the minimum wage in the short run and the large estimated elasticities of substitution across inputs in the long run. We find that in the short run, a large increase in the minimum wage has a small effect on employment and therefore increases the labor income of the workers who were earning less than the new minimum wage. In the long run, however, the minimum wage has perverse distributional implications in that it reduces the employment, income, and welfare of precisely the low-income workers it is meant to help. Nonetheless, these long-run effects take time to fully materialize because firms slowly adjust their mix of inputs. Existing transfer programs, such as the earned income tax credit (EITC), are more effective at improving long-run outcomes for workers at the low end of the wage distribution. But combining existing programs with a modest increase in the minimum wage generates even larger welfare gains for low-earning workers."^^; "2022-07-14"; "2022-07-14T14:18:32.078564718+00:00"^^; "https://doi.org/10.21034/sr.640"; ; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "2023-03-01T16:20:09.493575471+00:00"^^; "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"; "Research Paper"; "925", "393", "594", "926"; "Staff report (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department)"; "640"; "Monopsony", "Progressive tax and transfer system", "Employment", "Labor income", "Redistribution", "Earned income tax credit", "Labor market participation", "Inequality", "Wages", "Unemployment", "Monopsonistic competition", "Putty-clay capital", "Search frictions"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department"; ; "Publication" . ; .