Minimum wages and poverty with income-sharing

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-147

  Fields, Gary S ^a   Kanbur, Ravi ^b  

^a School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum wage; Poverty; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947283233     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-006-9037-5     Document Type: Article

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