Myth and Measurement : : The New Economics of the Minimum Wage - Twentieth-Anniversary Edition / / Alan B. Krueger, David Card.
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 po...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Twentieth-Anniversary |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 81 line illus. 81 tables. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
- Chapter 2. Employer Responses to the Minimum Wage: Evidence from the Fast-Food Industry
- Chapter 3. Statewide Evidence on the Effect of the 1988 California Minimum Wage
- Chapter 4. The Effect of the Federal Minimum Wage on Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Cross-State Comparisons
- Chapter 5. Additional Employment Outcomes
- Chapter 6. Evaluation of Time-Series Evidence
- Chapter 7. Evaluation of Cross-Section and Panel-Data Evidence
- Chapter 8. International Evidence
- Chapter 9. How the Minimum Wage Affects the Distribution of Wages, the Distribution of Family Earnings, and Poverty
- Chapter 10. How Much Do Employers and Shareholders Lose?
- Chapter 11. Is There an Explanation? Alternative Models of the Labor Market and the Minimum Wage
- Chapter 12. Conclusions and Implications
- References
- Index