Employment effects of minimum wages: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-373

  Leigh, Andrew ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INCOME; LABOR MARKET; MINIMUM WAGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0742322389     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2003.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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