Estimating the effect of minimum wages on employment from the distribution of wages: A critical view

Labour Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-134

  Dickens, Richard ^a,b   MacHin, Stephen ^a,b   Manning, Alan ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; J42; Minimum wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038909793     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(97)00027-4     Document Type: Article

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