[PDF] Making Minimum Wage eBook

Author : Jared Bernstein
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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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.

Author : David Neumark
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : 0262141027

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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.

Author : David Card
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400880874

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From David Card, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Alan Krueger, a provocative challenge to conventional wisdom about the minimum wage 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 policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes, including the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In each case they present a battery of evidence showing that increases in the minimum wage lead to increases in pay, but no loss in jobs. A distinctive feature of Card and Krueger's research is the use of empirical methods borrowed from the natural sciences, including comparisons between the "treatment" and "control" groups formed when the minimum wage rises for some workers but not for others. In addition, the authors critically reexamine the previous literature on the minimum wage and find that it, too, lacks support for the claim that a higher minimum wage cuts jobs. Finally, the effects of the minimum wage on family earnings, poverty outcomes, and the stock market valuation of low-wage employers are documented. Overall, this book calls into question the standard model of the labor market that has dominated economists' thinking on the minimum wage. In addition, it will shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage in Washington and in state legislatures throughout the country. With a new preface discussing new data, Myth and Measurement continues to shift the terms of the debate on the minimum wage.

Author : Matt Uhler
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534500839

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With the disappearance of well-paying jobs and the increasing cost of living, it’s becoming more and more difficult to stay afloat in the United States. Workers who earn the minimum wage often can’t afford the most basic needs. In response, more than 100 U.S. cities have issued living wage ordinances, requiring payments that allow workers to afford food, clothing, shelter, utilities, and healthcare. It may seem obvious that everyone wins with a living wage. But does paying out a living wage help or harm the economy? Should corporations be forced to pay them? What is society’s responsibility to its workers?

Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568587260

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Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1501702211

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The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves." After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.

Author : Gregory K. McGillivary
Publisher : BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)
Page : 2769 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Hours of labor
ISBN : 9781617460401

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"Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee, Section of Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association."

Author : Frederic Joseph Bayliss
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The Labour Party is committed to introducing a national legal minimum wage. But will this help the low paid, and what will be the wider effects on employment, inflation and competitiveness? Fred Bayliss, chair of the Campaign for Work and former member of the NBPI and Pay Board, argues that the introduction of a minimum rate of half median male earnings would affect 3 million people, one in seven employees. A rate of two thirds median earnings would affect 7.3 million, about a third of the total workforce. He proposes a Minimum Wage Commission composed of labour market specialists, economists and representatives of business and the trade unions to advise on the level, but argues that the final decision must be made by the Government. -- Page 4 of cover.