Figure A
Bound and unbound states are regionally clustered: States with substantial effective minimum wage increases (bound states) and with no or only slight effective minimum wage increases (unbound states) as a result of the increase in the federal minimum wage from $5.15 in 2007 to $7.25 in 2009
| State | Bound |
|---|---|
| Alaska | -1 |
| Arizona | -1 |
| California | -1 |
| Colorado | -1 |
| Connecticut | -1 |
| District of Columbia | -1 |
| Florida | -1 |
| Hawaii | -1 |
| Illinois | -1 |
| Iowa | -1 |
| Maine | -1 |
| Massachusetts | -1 |
| Michigan | -1 |
| Missouri | -1 |
| New Jersey | -1 |
| New York | -1 |
| Ohio | -1 |
| Oregon | -1 |
| Pennsylvania | -1 |
| Rhode Island | -1 |
| Vermont | -1 |
| Washington | -1 |
| West Virginia | -1 |
| Alabama | 1 |
| Arkansas | 1 |
| Georgia | 1 |
| Idaho | 1 |
| Indiana | 1 |
| Kansas | 1 |
| Kentucky | 1 |
| Louisiana | 1 |
| Maryland | 1 |
| Minnesota | 1 |
| Mississippi | 1 |
| Montana | 1 |
| Nebraska | 1 |
| Nevada | 1 |
| New Hampshire | 1 |
| New Mexico | 1 |
| North Carolina | 1 |
| North Dakota | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 1 |
| South Carolina | 1 |
| South Dakota | 1 |
| Tennessee | 1 |
| Texas | 1 |
| Utah | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 1 |
| Wyoming | 1 |
| Delaware | 0.1 |
Notes: CW define bound (or unbound) states as those with minimum wages less than (or greater than or equal to) $6.55 in January 2008. There are no observations for Delaware in my replication of the SIPP low-wage sample.
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