Minimum Wage Study Data

Data set used to investigate the effect of a minimum wage increase on full-time employment.

minwage

Format

A data frame with 358 rows and 8 variables:

chain

character: name of the fast-food restaurant chain

location

character: location of the restaurants (centralNJ, northNJ, PA, shoreNJ, southNJ)

wageBefore

numeric: wage before the minimum-wage increase

wageAfter

numeric: wage after the minimum-wage increase

fullBefore

numeric: number of full-time employees before the minimum-wage increase

fullAfter

numeric: number of full-time employees after the minimum-wage increase

partBefore

numeric: number of part-time employees before the minimum-wage increase

partAfter

numeric: number of part-time employees after the minimum-wage increase

Details

See QSS Table 2.5.

References

• Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

• David Card and Alan Krueger (1994) “Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” American Economic Review, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 772–793 doi: 10.3386/w4509