An empirical paper will require you to have a good grasp of statistics and econometrics in order to answer a question about an economic issue. You will pose a hypothesis and then use and analyze data to accept or reject this hypothesis. What economic theory says about this issue and, also, about the contributions of other researchers to the issue. Write a paper on whether minimum wage laws have had a negative impact on teenage and unskilled worker unemployment in the US for the past thirty years.