The Case for the Minimum Wage
Author: National Consumers' League
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Consumers' League
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001-01-25
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0791491196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the historical evolution of minimum-wage policy and explains how models are used (and misused) by different interests to achieve their particular aims. Minimum-wage policy was initially legitimated as a broader labor-market policy aimed at achieving greater productivity and labor-market stability. As organized labor has declined as a political force in the last twenty years, the nature of the debate has metamorphized into a narrowly focused and often highly technical discussion concerned with specific effects of given specific increases in the minimum wage, such as either relieving poverty or the so-called adverse effects on youth unemployment. This change has coincided with the greatest stagnation of the minimum wage.
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Consumers' League
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Women's Bureau
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Card
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1400880874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.
Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0880994568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Belman and Wolfson perform a meta-analysis on scores of published studies on the effects of the minimum wage to determine its impacts on employment, wages, poverty, and more.
Author: Chris Pond
Publisher:
Published: 1983*
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780785510079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Neumark
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0262141027
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.
Author: David Card
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 0691169128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990-91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.