Puerto Rico's minimum wage: Revisiting a price floor with bite
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Minimum Wage; Puerto Rico; Synthetic Controls;All these keywords.
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- J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
- J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
- J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
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