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An edition of The minimum wage (2012)

The minimum wage

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This volume explores the topics relating to the minimum wage, the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers, by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise this issue. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.

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Greenhaven Press
Language
English
Pages
214

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Table of Contents

What impact does the minimum wage have on workers? The minimum wage helps low-income workers / Kai Filion
Minimum wage hikes hurt low-income workers / James Sherk
The California minimum wage unfairly enriches low-income workers / Wayne Lusvardi
A higher minimum wage for tipped workers would help women especially / Rajesh D. Nayak and Paul K. Sonn
A low minimum wage hurts women, children and minorities / William E. Spriggs
The minimum wage hurts black teen workers / Richard W. Rahn and Izzy Santa
Most teens can find jobs paying more than minimum wage / Kevin D. Williamson
What impact does the minimum wage have on business and the economy? The minimum wage hurts small businesses / Joseph J. Sabia
The minimum wage helps small businesses / Business for a Fair Minimum Wage
Increasing the minimum wage favors megastores like Wal-Mart / Timothy P. Carney
Wal-Mart historically has fought increases in the minimum wage / Harold Meyerson
The minimum wage is an unethical infringement of the economy / Laurence M. Vance
The attack on the minimum wage is an unethical attack on the economy / Stephen Herrington
How does the minimum wage affect immigration? Raising and enforcing the minimum wage would reduce illegal immigration / Ivan Light
Raising the minimum wage would not reduce illegal immigration / David R. Henderson
Abolishing the minimum wage would reduce illegal immigration / Economic Edge
The minimum wage is irrelevant to illegal immigration / Thomas Andrew Olson
Reducing immigration is better than raising the minimum wage / Steven A. Camarota
Neither immigration nor the minimum wage hurts the economy / Invictus
What are the issues surrounding the minimum wage in other countries? Raising the minimum wage in Canada helps the poor and the economy / Jim Stanford
Raising the minimum wage in Canada will hurt those it is meant to help / Harvey Enchin
Australia must raise the minimum wage higher / Noel Holt
Raising Australia's minimum wage will hurt businesses / PM
Demand for an increased minimum wage triggered protests in Egypt / Joel Beinin
China's increase of its minimum wages may fuel inflation / Moming Zhou
Ireland must lower all wages to regain economic competitiveness / Fionnuala Carolan
A higher minimum wage could benefit Bangladesh / Sajjadur Rahman and Brendan Weston.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-202) and index.

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Detroit
Series
Opposing viewpoints, Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.2/30973
Library of Congress
HD4918 .M59 2012, HD4918.M59 2012

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Pagination
214 p. :
Number of pages
214

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Open Library
OL25321694M
Internet Archive
minimumwage0000unse
ISBN 10
0737757418, 0737757426
ISBN 13
9780737757415, 9780737757422
LCCN
2011031457
OCLC/WorldCat
745609860
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