Myth, measurement, and the minimum wage: Sound and fury signifying what?

Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 10 (4):607-619 (1996)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Abstract In Myth & Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, David Card and Alan Krueger assemble a variety of evidence purporting to weaken the case that minimum wages lead to unemployment among low?wage workers. Although the authors succeed in casting doubt on some previous studies that supported the standard view, they fail to provide compelling evidence for their alternative model. The methodological errors in their showcase study of minimum wages in New Jersey and Pennsylvania render it nearly worthless, and the remainder of the book's arguments are not weighty enough to reverse the conventional economic wisdom on minimum wages.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 93,932

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The Detrimental Side Effects of Minimum Wage Laws.Devaja Naik Claire Hovenga - 2013 - Business and Society Review 118 (4):463-487.
The ethics and economics of the minimum wage.T. M. Wilkinson - 2004 - Economics and Philosophy 20 (2):351-374.
Globalization and Social Justice: The Right to Minimum Wage.Hani Ofek-Ghendler - 2009 - Law and Ethics of Human Rights 3 (2):267-300.
44 Minimum wages.Ellen Mutari - 2009 - In Jan Peil & Irene van Staveren (eds.), Handbook of economics and ethics. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. pp. 333.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-10-18

Downloads
17 (#865,345)

6 months
1 (#1,722,083)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references