The Concise Guide to the Minimum Wage

by Jim Cox

Introduction

  1. What's the Effect of the Law?

  2. Why Not Raise It Even Higher?

  3. "People Have to Have a Livable Wage"

  4. On-the-Job Training

  5. "How Could Anyone's Labor Be Valued at Less Than the Minimum Wage?"

  6. Minimum Wage is Actually Higher than $5.15

  7. "It's Easy for the Middle Class to Call for Abolishing the Minimum Wage"

  8. Organized Labor

  9. Impact on Young, Minorities

  10. Fixed Number of Jobs?

  11. Racism

  12. Supra-Marginal Firms

  13. The Sub-Minimum Wage Law

  14. 300,000 vs. 600,000 Jobs Lost

  15. Crime

  16. Mandated Wages, Not Mandated Jobs

  17. "Businesses Can Afford It"

  18. The Card-Krueger Study

  19. The Monopsony Model

  20. Current Pay in the Market

  21. What is the Source of Wages?

  22. Individual Freedom

References

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The Concise Guide to the Minimum Wage © 2003 Jim Cox