TY - BOOK T1 - What Does the Minimum Wage Do? Y1 - 2014 A1 - Belman, Dale A1 - Paul J. Wolfson KW - employment KW - gender KW - inequality KW - low-wage workers KW - minimum wage KW - poverty KW - wages AB -

Belman and Wolfson have compiled the most comprehensive, analytical, and unbiased assessment of the effects of minimum wage increases that has ever been produced. Based on a rigorous meta-analysis of more than 200 scholarly publications published since 1991 (most after 2000) that address the various impacts of raising the minimum wage, the authors observe several outcomes influenced by increases in the minimum wage, how long it takes those outcomes to respond, the magnitude of effects, why increases in the minimum wage have the results they do, and the workers most likely to be impacted. The breadth and depth of their investigation clarifies the issues surrounding employment, wages, poverty and inequality, and effect by gender.

PB - W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research CY - Kalamazoo, MI L2 - eng ER -