What Does the Minimum Wage Do?

What Does the Minimum Wage Do?
Author: Dale Belman
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2014-07-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0880994568

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.

Minimum Wages

Minimum Wages
Author: David Neumark
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2008
Genre: 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.

Making Work Pay

Making Work Pay
Author: Jared Bernstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Examines the impact of the 1996-97 increase in the minimum wage on the employment opportunities, wages, and incomes of law-wage workers and their households.