Title Minimum wages / David Neumark and William L. Wascher.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-357) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The history of the minimum wage in the United States -- The effects of minimum wages on employment -- Minimum wage effects on the distribution of wages and earnings -- The effects of minimum wages on the distribution of incomes -- The effects of minimum wages on skills -- The effects of minimum wages on prices and profits -- The political economy of minimum wages -- Summary and conclusions.
Note	Print version record.
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	Minimum wage -- United States.
	Income distribution -- United States.
	Labor supply -- United States.
	Minimum wage.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
	Income distribution. (OCoLC)fst00968670
	Labor supply. (OCoLC)fst00990165
	Minimum wage. (OCoLC)fst01022855
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author	Wascher, William L.
Other Form:	Print version: Neumark, David. Minimum wages. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262141024 0262141027 (DLC) 2008017575 (OCoLC)216938374
ISBN	9780262280563 (electronic bk.)
	0262280566 (electronic bk.)
	9781435691841 (electronic bk.)
	1435691849 (electronic bk.)

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