Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?

We summarize recent research on the wage and employment effects of minimum wage laws in the United States and infer from non-U.S. studies of hours laws the likely effects of unchanging U.S. hours laws. The effective minimum wage, increasingly a province of state government, is now closely related to...

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Main Authors: Charles C. Brown, Daniel S. Hamermesh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2019-11-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/5/5/68