Case of the Minimum Wage
Competing Policy Models
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
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Places contemporary minimum wage debates in historical context, stressing the importance of political as opposed to economic variables.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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2001-01-25
- Mått152 x 234 x 20 mm
- Vikt454 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieSUNY series in Public Policy
- Antal sidor250
- FörlagState University of New York Press
- ISBN9780791448557