The international experience of minimum wages in an economic downturn
What should governments do with the level of the minimum wage (MW) in times of recession? In an economic downturn when most workers face falling real wages is it appropriate to let the MW fall or are the positive effects of the MW on inequality enough to justify its uprating–and if so what might be...
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Volume: | 27 |
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Main Author: |
Peter Dolton
Chiara Rosazza Bondibene Fabiano Schivardi Johannes Spinnewijn |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
Place of publication: |
Blackwell Publishing 01.01.2012 Oxford University Press |
published in: | Economic policy Vol. 27; no. 69; pp. 99 - 142 |
Data of publication: | 20120101 |
ISSN: |
0266-4658 1468-0327 |
EISSN: |
1468-0327 |
Discipline: | Economics |
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Database: | Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |