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Author Card, David E. (David Edward), 1956-

Title Myth and measurement : the new economics of the minimum wage / David Card and Alan B. Krueger
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction and Overview -- Ch. 2. Employer Responses to the Minimum Wage: Evidence from the Fast-Food Industry -- Ch. 3. Statewide Evidence on the Effect of the 1988 California Minimum Wage -- Ch. 4. The Effect of the Federal Minimum Wage on Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Cross-State Comparisons -- Ch. 5. Additional Employment Outcomes -- Ch. 6. Evaluation of Time-Series Evidence -- Ch. 7. Evaluation of Cross-Section and Panel-Data Evidence -- Ch. 8. International Evidence -- Ch. 9. How the Minimum Wage Affects the Distribution of Wages, the Distribution of Family Earnings, and Poverty -- Ch. 10. How Much Do Employers and Shareholders Lose? -- Ch. 11. Is There an Explanation? Alternative Models of the Labor Market and the Minimum Wage -- Ch. 12. Conclusions and Implications
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-413) and index
Subject Minimum wage.
Employment (Economic theory)
Minimum wage -- United States.
Labor market -- United States.
Author Krueger, Alan B.
LC no. 94040567 //r95