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The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases in Rural and Urban Pennsylvania (2017)
April 30, 2017 | Rural People and Communities
The study estimated the effects of an increase in the minimum wage in rural and urban Pennsylvania. Many empirical studies showed that minimum wage workers in Pennsylvania and the U.S share similar socio-demographic characteristics; they were mostly female, young, white, high school or less education and never married. The study results showed that there were many similarities between rural and urban minimum wage earners in Pennsylvania with only slight differences between rural and urban Pennsylvania workers. For example, rural workers are significantly more white, more are teenagers, a high percentage of rural workers have a high school diploma or less, more are English speaking, more have a disability, and rural workers spend less time commuting to work.
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Introducing the Center's new journal, Rural Policy: The Research Bulletin of the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.