• General Objective
  • Investigate the impact of the minimum wage on employment in Canada.
  • Your objective is to compose a short paper describing your analysis.

questions to Answer

a) Given the data provided, what types of workers work for low wages, including the minimum wage?

b) Using the empirical framework you have chosen, does your analysis suggest that increases in the minimum wage increase or decrease employment?

c) How do the results compare to those in other research papers in terms of the size of the estimated effect and its sign?