AuthorNeumark, David
TitleMinimum wages [electronic resource] / David Neumark and William L. Wascher
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2008
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262141024.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (377 p.) : ill

SUMMARY

This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool


SUBJECT

  1. Minimum wage -- United States
  2. Income distribution -- United States
  3. Labor supply -- United States
  4. Minimum wage