Table 2

Impact of declining minimum wage on 10th percentile wage and 50/10 wage gap, 1979--2017

Log changes in 10th percentile
Actual W/out min wage impact Min wage impact
1979–1988
Men -0.176 -0.040 -0.137
Women -0.207 -0.006 -0.201
All -0.194 -0.014 -0.179
1979–2017
Men -0.056 0.101 -0.156
Women -0.009 0.164 -0.173
All -0.022 0.133 -0.155
Log changes in 50/10 wage gap
Actual W/out min wage impact Min wage impact
1979–1988
Men 0.096 -0.035 0.130
Women 0.248 0.058 0.191
All 0.163 -0.008 0.171
1979–2017
Men -0.006 -0.156 0.150
Women 0.214 0.060 0.154
All 0.091 -0.047 0.138

 

Source: Computed from unpublished analyses provided by Thomas Lemieux using the same model in Fortin, Lemieux, and Floyd (2021).

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