Title: The Case of the Minimum Wage
First published: March 2001
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.
Subjects: Minimum wage, History, Labor policy, Law and legislation, Youth, Labor economics, Poverty, Employment, Salaires minimums, Travail, Politique gouvernementale, Histoire, Pauvreté, Économie du travail, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Labor, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Labor & Industrial Relations
Places: United States