Card and Krueger (1994) Dataset on Minimum Wages and Employment
ck1994.RdEmployment and wage characteristics in fast-food restaurants across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The dataset includes information on store characteristics, wages, and employee counts, reorganized so that each row represents one observation per store across two survey waves.
Format
A data frame with 820 observations and 26 variables, representing 410 stores surveyed twice.
- store
Unique store ID
- chain
Fast-food chain
- co_owned
Company-owned
- state
State
- southj
Located in southern New Jersey
- centralj
Located in central New Jersey
- northj
Located in northern New Jersey
- pa1
Located in the northeast suburbs of Philadelphia
- pa2
Located in the outside northeast suburbs of Philadelphia
- shore
Located on New Jersey shore
- ncalls
Number of call-backs (0 if contacted on first call)
- empft
Number of full-time employees
- emppt
Number of part-time employees
- nmgrs
Number of managers/assistant managers
- wage_st
Starting wage (dollars per hour)
- inctime
Months to usual first raise
- firstinc
Usual amount of first raise (dollars per hour)
- meals
Free/reduced price meal code
- open
Hour of opening
- hoursopen
Number of hours open per day
- pricesoda
Price of medium soda, including tax
- pricefry
Price of small fries, including tax
- priceentree
Price of entrée, including tax
- nregisters
Number of cash registers in store
- nregisters11
Number of registers open at 11am
- time
Survey wave indicator
Source
Card, D., & Krueger, A. B. (1994). "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review. Data available at http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/data_sets.html