We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws
in the United States and infer from non-US studies of hours laws the likely effects of …

What do we know about the economic consequences of labor market regulations? Few
economic policy questions are as contentious as labor market regulations. The effects of …

In some parts of the country, many employers will be very reluctant to pay high wages to
workers with modest skills. When labor unions and activists began calling for an increase in …

V. Conclusions Our results show that minimum wages reduce employment opportunities for
workers. Like the early studies, our county-level (more aggregate) estimates imply fairly …

The federal government has imposed a minimum wage since 1938, and nearly all the states
impose their own minimum wages. These laws prevent employers from paying wages below …

Empirical work on the minimum wage typically estimates effects averaged across high‐and
low‐wage areas. Low‐wage labor markets could potentially be less able to absorb minimum …

In the past thirty years the national minimum wage in the United States fell by about 30
percent, while the size of the low-wage labor market increased substantially. To counter …

Focuses on the movement to increase minimum pay throughout the US Profiles of several
people whose wages were raised; Impact of increased pay on standards of living; Effect of …

With the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, Congress mandated a federal"
living wage" in order to" maintain the minimum standard of living necessary for the health …

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