Over the last 20 years, local municipalities have been implementing minimum wage ordinances at an accelerated rate. These local changes, along with state and federal minimum wage increases, are included in the examination of the impact of minimum wage hikes on employment growth of teenagers in the food services and drinking places subsector. While most minimum wage research focuses on employment levels, recent contributions highlight the importance of analyzing employment growth. Following this trend, this study focuses on teenagers within the restaurant industry to test for the impact of minimum wages on inexperienced workers. Using a distributed-lag model, the results show that an increase in a minimum wage reduces employment growth for teenagers within this subsector. The effects of minimum wages within this demographic were most strongly felt in the first three years following an increase in minimum wage. Specifically, the results show that a 10% increase in the minimum wage decreases the employment growth rate by approximately 2.27% over a period of three years.

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地方、州和联邦最低工资对餐饮业青少年就业增长的影响

在过去的 20 年中，地方市政当局一直在加速实施最低工资条例。这些地方变化以及州和联邦最低工资的增加，都包含在最低工资上涨对食品服务和饮酒场所子行业青少年就业增长影响的审查中。虽然大多数最低工资研究侧重于就业水平，但最近的贡献强调了分析就业增长的重要性。遵循这一趋势，本研究侧重于餐饮业的青少年，以测试最低工资对缺乏经验的工人的影响。使用分布式滞后模型，结果表明，最低工资的增加会降低该子行业青少年的就业增长。在最低工资提高后的前三年，最低工资对这一人群的影响最为强烈。具体而言，结果表明，最低工资每增加 10%，三年内就业增长率就会下降约 2.27%。