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

"In Myth and Measurement, David Card and Alan Krueger presented a powerful challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages necessarily reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has profoundly influenced public policy as well as the direction of economic research, the authors...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Card, David E. (David Edward), 1956- (Autor), Krueger, Alan B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Edición:Twentieth-anniversary edition.
Temas:
Minimum wage.
Employment (Economic theory)
Minimum wage > United States.
Labor market > United States.
Employment
Salaires minimums.
Emploi.
Salaires minimums > États-Unis.
Marché du travail > États-Unis.
employing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Labor market
Minimum wage
Arbeidsmarkt.
Minimumlonen.
Werkgelegenheid.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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