Minimum wage and unemployment

[Jim Westrich]

David Card did studies in many states (California, then New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania if I remember correctly). Most of this work is in the book:

Myth and Measurement:
The New Economics of the Minimum Wage
David Card and Alan B. Krueger
1997, Princeton University Press

Jim

At 11:47 AM 5/19/00, you wrote:
>A few years ago someone studied the effects of the minimum
>wage on employment levels in, I think, New Jersey, and
>concluded that the former had either no effect on the latter
>or that there was a positive correlation.  Can anyone remind
>me of the name of the report or the person doing it, or even
>give a URL?  Thanks.
>
>
>Gordon

"Oh, money has its own way, and money has to grow"

   --Malvina Reynolds 
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