Case of the Minimum Wage

Competing Policy Models

AvOren M. Levin-Waldman

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Places contemporary minimum wage debates in historical context, stressing the importance of political as opposed to economic variables.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-01-25
Mått:150 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Public Policy
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791448564

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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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"The book effectively blends economics, political science, legal studies, history, and policy studies. I 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

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables and FiguresPreface 1. Introduction Political IssuesHistory 2. Competing Models Import of UtilitarianismEconomic ModelsPolitical ModelConclusion 3 The Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective The Efficiency ArgumentConstitutional IssuesProtective Labor Legislation for WomenThe Need for a More Encompassing ArgumentConclusion 4. The Evolution of the Wage The Fair Labor Standards ActRole of Unions?The AssaultConclusion 5. Labor in Decline Significance of Declining Unionism?Voting BehaviorCongressional Voting,Implications 6. Return to Labor Market Policy Previous ApproachProductivityIndexationToward Greater Policy Coherence NotesBibliographyIndex