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          Guide: Minimum Wage

A select minimum wage bibliography

Acemoglu, Daron. 1996. "Good jobs versus bad jobs: Theory and some evidence." Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, unpublished paper.

Belman, Dale, and Paul Wolfson. 1997. "A time series analysis of employment, wages, and the minimum wage." University of Minnesota, unpublished paper.

Belman, Dale, and Paul Wolfson. 1998. "The minimum wage: The bark is worse than the bite." University of Minnesota, unpublished paper.

Bernstein, Jared and John Schmitt. 1997. The sky hasn't fallen: An evaluation of the minimum wage increase. Briefing paper. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute.

Bhaskar, V. and Theodore To. 1996. "Minimum wages for Ronald McDonald monopsonies: A theory of monopsonistic competition." University of St. Andrews, unpublished paper.

Brown, Charles, Curtis Gilroy, and Andrew Cohen. 1982. "The effect of minimum wage on employment and unemployment." Journal of Economic Literature. Vol. 20, June, pp. 487-528.

Burdett, Kenneth, and Dale T. Mortensen. 1989. "Equilibrium wage differentials and employer size." Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Discussion Paper No. 860. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University.

Card, David. 1992. "Using regional variation in wages to measure the effects of the federal minimum wage." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 22-37.

Card, David. 1992. "Do minimum wages reduce employment? A case study of California, 1987-1989." Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 38-54.

Card, David and Alan Krueger. 1994. "Minimum wages and employment: A case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economics Review. Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 487-96.

Card, David and Alan Krueger. 1995. Myth and measurement: The new economics of the minimum wage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Card, David and Alan Krueger. 1998. "A re-analysis of the effect of the New Jersey minimum wage increase on the fast-food Industry with representative payroll data." Cambridge, Mass.: NBER.

Deere, Donald, Kevin Murphy, and Finis Welch. 1995. Employment and the 1990-1991 minimum wage hike. AEA Papers and Proceedings. Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 232-37.

Dickens, Richard, Stephen Machin, and Alan Manning. 1993. "The effects of minimum wages on employment: Theory and evidence from the UK." Center for Economic Performance, Working Paper No. 183. London: London School of Economics.

Evans, William and Mark Turner. 1996. "Employment effects of minimum and subminimum wages: Comment on Neumark and Wascher." University of Maryland, unpublished paper.

Freeman, Richard. 1996. "The minimum wage as a redistributive tool." Economic Journal. Vol. 106, May, pp 639-49.

Katz, Lawrence, and Alan B. Krueger. 1992. The effect of the minimum wage on the fast food industry. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 6-21.

Machin, Stephen, and Alan Manning. 1994. The effects of minimum wages on wage dispersion and employment: Evidence from the U.K. wage councils. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 319-29.

Manning, Alan. 1994. "Labour markets with company wage policies." Center for Economic Performance, Discussion Paper No. 214. London: London School of Economics.

Manning, Alan. (n.d.) "Introduction to monopsony in motion." London: London School of Economics, unpublished paper.

Michl, Thomas R. 1996. "A note on hiring, scheduling and the minimum wage." Colgate University, unpublished paper.

Neumark, David and William Wascher. 1995. "Minimum wage effects on employment and school enrollment." Journal of Business Economics and Statistics. Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 199-207.

Palley, Thomas I. 1995. "Jobs versus hours: Explaining the employment effects of minimum wage regulations and other interesting things." New School for Social Research, unpublished paper.

Palley, Thomas I. 1996. "The positive employment, productivity and distributional effects of the minimum wage." Washington, D.C.: AFL-CIO. Unpublished paper.

Spriggs, William and Bruce W. Klein. 1994. Raising the floor: The effects of the minimum wage on low-wage workers. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute.

Swinnerton, Kenneth A. "Minimum wages in an equilibrium search model with diminishing returns to labor in production." Journal of Labor Economics. Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 340-55.

U.S. Department of Labor. 1998. "Minimum wage and overtime hours." Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division. Preliminary draft.

Webster, David. 1997. "Appendix B: Wage analysis computations," in Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt, eds., The State of Working America 1996-97. Economic Policy Institute Series. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.

Wellington, Allison. 1991. "Effects of the minimum wage on the employment status of youths: An update." Journal of Human Resources. Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 27-46.

Wessels, Walter. 1997. "Restaurants as monopsonies: Minimum wages and tipped services." Economic Inquiry. Vol. 35, pp. 334-49.

Williams, Nicolas and Jeffrey A. Mills. 1998. "Minimum wage effects by gender." Journal of Labor Research. Vol. XIX, No. 2, pp. 397-414.

Williams, Nicolas and Jeffrey A. Mills. 1997. "The minimum wage and teenage employment: Evidence from time series." Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati, unpublished paper.

Wolfson, Paul. 1998. "A re-examination of time series evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on youth employment and unemployment." Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota, unpublished paper.

Zavodny, Madeline. 1996. "The minimum wage: Maximum controversy over a minimal effect." Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ph.D. dissertation.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCE: MAKING WORK PAY: THE IMPACT OF THE 1996-97 MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE BY JARED BERNSTEIN AND JOHN SCHMITT (1998).



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