Minimum wage and unemployment

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Fri May 19 10:56:31 PDT 2000



>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

David Card (down the hall here at Berkeley, but not in this morning) and Alan Krueger (my boss at the _Journal of Economic Perspectives_). Their book was called _Myth and Measurement_ <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691048231>



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