Table 1

Percentage change in employment for each percentage change in earnings due to a change in the minimum wage

All county sample County pair sample
No matching -0.784* -0.482**
No matching, control for Census division differences -0.114 —
No matching, control for state differences 0.183 —
No matching, control for MSA differences 0.211 —
County-level matching — 0.079

* Statistically significant at the 10 percent level.
** Statistically significant at the 5 percent level.

Source: Estimates drawn from Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010), Table 2 (this is not a reproduction of their Table 2)

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