Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy Arguments for a Minimum Wage /

• Main Author: Levin-Waldman, Oren M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity,
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Public policy.; Labor economics.; Economic theory.; Economic Policy.; Public Policy.; Labor Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves the e...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Unsettled Findings
• 3. Middle Class Welfare Effects
• 4. The Minimum Wage and Job Creation
• 5. Minimum Wage and Income Distribution
• 6. Other Theoretical Frameworks
• 7. Minimum Wage and Greater Democracy.