The Case for a National Minimum Wage
Author : Chris Pond
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1983*
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN : 9780785510079
Author : Chris Pond
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1983*
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN : 9780785510079
Author : National Consumers' League
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN :
Author : David Neumark
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : 0262141027
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 : National Consumers' League
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN :
Author : David Card
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400880874
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 : Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791491196
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 : National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Eight-hour movement
ISBN :
Author : Jerold L. Waltman
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0875863027
This well-documented brief demonstrates that both poverty and excessive economic inequality are inimical to the maintenance of a healthy republic, and notes that providing a living wage is not only fair, but is superior to any other public policy such as cash transfers (or the Earned Income Tax Credit) in the effort to fight poverty.
Author : Helen Flanagan
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN : 9781870178228
Author : United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Minimum wage
ISBN :