Routinization and the Decline of the U.S. Minimum Wage
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Keywords
Minimum wage; Routinization; Education; Wage inequality; Unemployment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J88 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2014-08-28 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-08-28 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2014-08-28 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MAC-2014-08-28 (Macroeconomics)
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