to that date and reveals significant shifts in the OECD position. OECD (2006) finds that: There is no significant correlation between unemployment and employment protection legislation; The level of the minimum wage has no significant direct impact on unemployment; and No mainstream research has convincingly showed the opposite despite students being taught every day that wage increases damage employment particularly at the low-pay end of the labour market. This is one of those areas that the mainstream will never concede that their competitive labour market model is deeply flawed and is totally inadequate when it comes to understanding the dynamics of low-paid jobs. There was also the 2004 book he co-authored with James J. Heckman -- Inequality in America" -- which focused on the role of human capital investments in generating unequal income and wealth outcomes. They argued that low-income workers would benefit from more investment in human capital. A major finding was that more resources should be devoted to public schooling which they demonstrated provided a high return per public dollar. The book was fairly orthodox but it is fair to say that it was on the liberal end of the mainstream -- that is, a concern for equity, a signal that inequality was a market failure that could be reduced by public spending intervention targetted at the poor. What about now though? Krueger has had a recent chance to influence job creation given he was the assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy in the first two years of