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The Clinton administration has claimed its proposal to increase the minimum wage would not affect employment; other research supports that a higher minimum wage means fewer jobs.
This book discusses the cost and standard of living, income distribution, wage surveys, and wages.
A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA. Woven into this presentation is the authors strong skepticism regarding the fear that freer trade has actually pushed down the wages of unskilled workers, or that it will do so in the future. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Comprises essays which describe and analyse the major changes in wage relationships between 1963 and the 1980s. Notes the increase in wage differentials for workers with different levels of schooling as the most pervasive change.
financial markets suggests that factors such as differences in capital requirements, limi tations on size or on the range of financial activities in which firms can engage, govern ment guarantee arrangements for deposits or payments, and reporting or disclosure requirements can have important effects on the efficiency of industrial and commercial firms and thus on the international competitive positions of major sectors of the U.S. economy. Regulatory and tax policies must therefore take into account effects on inter national competitive positions in addition to domestic concerns. The articles in this issue analyze differences in market organization and regulation across countries and examin...
Nine recommendations from a blue-ribbon panel of economists on how to improve the way that the Consumer Price Index tracks prices in our ever-evolving economy.
"Presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth on 'Price Behavior, 1965-1974, ' sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, held 21 through 23 November 1974 in Bethesda, Maryland." Includes bibliographical references.