The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy ModelsSUNY Press, 25.01.2001 - 236 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
Introduction | 1 |
POLITICAL ISSUES | 2 |
HISTORY | 7 |
Competing Models | 15 |
IMPORT OF UTILITARIANISM | 17 |
ECONOMIC MODELS | 21 |
POLITICAL MODEL | 34 |
CONCLUSION | 48 |
THE ASSAULT | 118 |
CONCLUSION | 133 |
Labor in Decline | 135 |
SIGNIFICANCE OF DECLINING UNIONISM? | 136 |
VOTING BEHAVIOR | 141 |
CONGRESSIONAL VOTING | 146 |
IMPLICATIONS | 159 |
Return to Labor Market Policy | 163 |
The Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective | 51 |
THE EFFICIENCY ARGUMENT | 53 |
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES | 61 |
PROTECTIVE LABOR LEGISLATION FOR WOMEN | 66 |
THE NEED FOR A MORE ENCOMPASSING ARGUMENT | 70 |
CONCLUSION | 74 |
The Evolution of the Wage | 77 |
THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT | 78 |
ROLE OF UNIONS? | 106 |
PREVIOUS APPROACH | 168 |
PRODUCTIVITY | 176 |
INDEXATION | 178 |
TOWARD GREATER POLICY COHERENCE | 183 |
Notes | 189 |
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