Studies of the Effect of Minimum Wages on Teenage Employment

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Essay

Studies of the effect of minimum wages on teenage employment typically regress the teenage employment to population ratio on the real minimum wage or the minimum wage relative to average hourly earnings using OLS. Assume that you have a cross section of United States for two years. Do you think that there are problems with simultaneous equation bias?

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