| The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing Policy Models Contributor(s): Levin-Waldman, Oren M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791448568 ISBN-13: 9780791448564 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Law | Labor & Employment - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 331.23 |
| LCCN: 00038770 |
| Series: Suny Public Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.92" W x 8.98" (0.73 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
