Myth and measurement : the new economics of the minimum wage /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Card, David E. (David Edward), 1956- (Author)
Group Author: Krueger, Alan B. (writer of foreword.)
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, New Jersey :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Twentieth-anniversary edition.
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Carrier Form: xxviii, 422 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-413) and index.
ISBN: 9780691169125 (paperback) :
0691169128 (paperback)
Index Number: HD4917
CLC: F244
Call Number: F244/C266/20th ann. ed.
Contents: Introduction and overview -- Employer responses to the minimum wage: evidence fom the fast-food industry -- Statewide evidence on the effect of the 1988 California minimum wage -- The effect of the federal minimum wage on low-wage workers: evidence from cross-state comparisons -- Additional employment outcomes -- Evaluation of time-series evidence -- Evaluation of cross-section and panel-data evidence -- International evidence -- How the minimum wage affects the distribution of wages, the ditribution of family earnings, and poverty -- How much do employers and shareholders lose? -- Is there a explanation? Alternative models of the labor market and the minimum wage -- Conclusions and implications.