Wages, school quality, and employment demand
By: David Card and Alan B. Krueger ; edited by Randall K. Q. Akee, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Contributors: Krueger, Alan B.; Akee, Randall K. Q. (Randall Kekoa Quinones); Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Series: IZA Prize in Labor Economics series
Publisher: New York; Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780199693382
Subjects: Wages; Minimum wage; Effect of education on; Labor market
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ingenuity and creativity : David Card and Alan Krueger; title: School quality, earnings, and black-white wage differences. Does school quality matter? : returns to education and the characteristics of public schools in the United States. School quality and black-white relative earnings : a direct assessment. School resources and student outcomes : an overview of the literature and new evidence from North and South Carolina. Experimental estimates of education production functions; title: Minimum wages and employment demand. Using regional variation in wages to measure the effects of the federal minimum wage. Minimum wages and employment : a case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A re-analysis of the effect of the New Jersey minimum wage with representative payroll data. Unexpected inflation, real wages, and employment determination in union contracts; title: Concluding thoughts.