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Monograph
The minimum wage: a perspective
Originally appeared in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Quarterly Review, Autumn 1978
Speech
Summary of the Report on the Competitiveness of Puerto Rico's Economy
Remarks before the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Annual Convention, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Journal Article
The minimum wage debate: always off course
Journal Article
A minimum wager
Will a rising wage floor lift all workers, or put too many in the unemployment line?
Journal Article
The minimum wage
Journal Article
Are minimum wages intrusive?
Working Paper
Positive and normative effects of a minimum wage
We review the positive and normative effects of a minimum wage in various versions of a search-theoretic model of the labor market.
Working Paper
The effect of the minimum wage on hours of work
Working Paper
The effect of minimum wages on immigrants' employment and earnings
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower levels of education, limited English skills, and less social capital. Results based on data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1994?2005 do not indicate that minimum wages have adverse employment effects among adult immigrants or natives who did not complete high school. However, low-skilled ...