Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage

by David Card and Alan B. Krueger

Book Overview

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for public policy as well as for the direction of economic research, the authors put standard economic theory to the test, using data from a series of recent episodes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691048231
• ISBN13: 9780691048239
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"