The Concise Guide to the Minimum Wage

by Jim Cox

 

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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

About the Author


About the Author...

Jim Cox is an Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science at the Gwinnett Campus of Georgia Perimeter College in Lawrenceville, Georgia and has taught the principles of Economics courses since 1979. Great Ideas for Teaching Economics includes nine of his submissions. As a Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies his commentaries were published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Wichita Journal, The Orange County Register, The San Diego Business Journal, and The Justice Times as well as other newspapers. His articles have also been published in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Margin Magazine, Creative Loafing, The LP News, The Georgia Libertarian, The Gwinnett Daily News, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Gwinnett Post, The Gwinnett Citizen, The Gwinnett Business Journal and APC News. Cox has been a member of the Academic Board of Advisors for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, and is currently on the Board of Scholars of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. His website is gpc.edu/~jcox

 
 

The Concise Guide to the Minimum Wage © 2003 Jim Cox