The Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Some Questions We Need to Answer / David Neumark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumark, David.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23584.

NBER working paper series no. w23584

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Employment Effects of Minimum Wages

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.

Summary:

The literature on the employment effects of minimum wages is about a century old, and includes hundreds of studies. Yet the debate among researchers about the employment effects of minimum wages remains intense and unsettled. This essay discusses the key questions that have arisen in the past research that, if we can answer them, may prove most useful in making sense of the conflicting evidence. I also focus on additional questions we should consider to better inform the policy debate, in particular in the context of the very high minimum wages coming on line in the United States, about which past research is quite uninformative.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2017.