Worker Earnings, Service Quality, and Firm Profitability: Evidence from Nursing Homes and Minimum Wage Reforms
- The Review of Economics and Statistics 2024
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This paper examines whether higher earnings for frontline workers affects the quality of employees' output. I leverage increases in the statutory minimum wage, combined with worker, consumer, and firm outcomes in the nursing home sector. I find that highe
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Firm Profitability Minimum Wage Reforms Nursing Homes Service Quality Worker Earnings