This week in research #93

Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week:

• Abbate and Jiménez (with ungated earlier version here) find that the 2008 increase in the minimum wage in Argentina triggered a 4.8 percentage point (19%) decrease in job separations (the case against the disemployment effects of the minimum wage is shaky, but it's not dead)
• Birch and Preston (open access) find that there has been a significant decline in the wage premia (returns to education) within all education groups in Australia between 2001-2011 and 2012-2023, except for PhD and Graduate Certificates
• Baylis et al. (open access) look at decadal migration data at the county level in the US from the 1950s to the 2000s, and find that warm temperatures induce net out-migration, while cooler temperatures do not
• Chiovelli, Michalopoulos, and Papaioannou (open access) find that demining in Mozambique increases economic activity at the local level, and that this arises from increases in market access rather than increases in productivity