Myth and measurement : the new economics of the minimum wage /
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Princeton University Press,
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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. |
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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. |