Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

ILR Review

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL, 2014, Pages 608-648

  Neumark, David ^a   Salas, J M Ian ^a,b   Wascher, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum wage effect; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904024070     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: 2162271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00197939140670s307     Document Type: Article

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