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Minimum Wages and Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research
Author: Minimum Wages
Author: David NeumarkPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262141027
Category : Income distribution
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
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.
Myth and Measurement
Author: David CardPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691169128
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
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.
Minimum Wages and Employment : a Review of Evidence from the New Minumum Wage Research
Author: David NeumarkWhat Does the Minimum Wage Do?
Author: Dale BelmanPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880994568
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
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.
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment
Author: Marvin H. KostersPublisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844770642
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Clinton administration has claimed its proposal to increase the minimum wage would not affect employment; other research supports that a higher minimum wage means fewer jobs.
Low-wage Employment in Europe
Author: Wiemer SalverdaPublisher: ACCO
ISBN: 9033456192
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Myth and Measurement
Author: David Edward CardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691043906
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The authors present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. A distinctive feature of their research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. Line drawings.
Minimum Wages and Employment
Author: David NeumarkPublisher: Now Publishers Inc
ISBN: 1601980124
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
"We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages -- in the United States and other countries -- that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of an increase in the minimum wage. However, the oft-stated assertion that recent research fails to support the traditional view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the studies surveyed in this monograph give a relatively consistent (although not always statistically significant) indication of negative employment effects of minimum wages. In addition, among the papers we view as providing the most credible evidence, almost all point to negative employment effects, both for the United States as well as for many other countries. Two other important conclusions emerge from our review. First, we see very few -- if any -- studies that provide convincing evidence of positive employment effects of minimum wages, especially from those studies that focus on the broader groups (rather than a narrow industry) for which the competitive model predicts disemployment effects. Second, the studies that focus on the least-skilled groups provide relatively overwhelming evidence of stronger disemployment effects for these groups"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Report of the Minimum Wage Study Commission: Commission findings and recommendations
Author: United States. Minimum Wage Study CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Report of a Commission on social implications, economic implications and political aspects of the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, labour legislation, USA, 1938 - presents research results and recommendations commenting on the impact on employment and unemployment, inflation, minimum wage indexation, income distribution, exemptions, noncompliance, etc. And research papers giving demographic aspects, national level, local level, regional level and sectoral details. Graphs, references and statistical tables.,