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Linking Administrative Data to Understand Effects of Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance

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  • Romich, Jennifer L.
  • Althauser, Anne K.
  • Allard, Scott William
  • Long, Mark C.
  • Vigdor, Jacob

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This manuscript describes how the University of Washington Minimum Wage Study plans to use merged data from multiple state administrative sources to examine policy and social science questions about the implementation and impact of the Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance.

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  • Romich, Jennifer L. & Althauser, Anne K. & Allard, Scott William & Long, Mark C. & Vigdor, Jacob, 2018. "Linking Administrative Data to Understand Effects of Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance," OSF Preprints egvwq, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/egvwq
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