The state-federal dichotomy in the effects of minimum wages on teenage employment in the United States

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-269

  Bazen, Stephen ^a   Le Gallo, Julie ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b Université de Franche Comté ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Minimum wage; Teenage employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350425400     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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