The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy ModelsState University of New York Press, 25.01.2001 - 250 Seiten This book traces the historical evolution of minimum-wage policy and explains how models are used (and misused) by different interests to achieve their particular aims. Minimum-wage policy was initially legitimated as a broader labor-market policy aimed at achieving greater productivity and labor-market stability. As organized labor has declined as a political force in the last twenty years, the nature of the debate has metamorphized into a narrowly focused and often highly technical discussion concerned with specific effects of given specific increases in the minimum wage, such as either relieving poverty or the so-called adverse effects on youth unemployment. This change has coincided with the greatest stagnation of the minimum wage. |
Inhalt
Competing Models | 15 |
The Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective | 51 |
The Evolution of the Wage | 77 |
Labor in Decline | 135 |
Return to Labor Market Policy | 163 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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