The case of the minimum wage
Subtitle: competing policy models
By: Oren M. Levin-Waldman.
Series: SUNY series in public policy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Minimum wage -- United States; Minimum wage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History; Labor policy -- United States -- History; Poverty -- United States; Youth -- Employment -- United States; Labor economics -- United States
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-227) and index.