The Case of the Minimum Wage by Oren M Levin-Waldman
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.
"The book effectively blends economics, political science, legal studies, history, and policy studiesI found it absorbing." — Deborah M. Figart, coauthor of Contesting the Market: Pay Equity and the Politics of Economic Restructuring
"The balancing of economic perspectives with political perspectives is excellent." — J. Edward Kellough, University of Georgia
Oren M. Levin-Waldman is the author of Reconceiving Liberalism: Dilemmas of Contemporary Liberal Public Policy and Plant Closure, Regulation, and Liberalism: The Limits to Liberal Public Philosophy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791448557 |
| ISBN 10 | 079144855X |
| Title | The Case of the Minimum Wage |
| Author | Oren M Levin-Waldman |
| Series | Suny Series In Public Policy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2001-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
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