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Minimum wage regulation in retail trade

Title
Minimum wage regulation in retail trade / Belton M. Fleisher.
Author
Fleisher, Belton M.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, ©1981.

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Description
xi, 129 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
Monograph commenting on effects of national level minimum wage labour legislation on retail trade in the USA - measures impacts on labour costs, wage rate increase, employment and unemployment among young workers as well as investment in vocational training, providing data on both historical and contemporary trends (1870 to 1978). Bibliography pp. 126 to 129 and graphs.
Series Statement
Studies in economic policy
Uniform Title
Studies in economic policy
Subject
  • Wages > Retail trade employees > Law and legislation > United States
  • Wages > Retail trade employees > United States
  • Wages > Retail trade employees
  • Wages > Retail trade employees > Law and legislation
  • national level
  • minimum wage
  • labour legislation
  • retail trade
  • labour cost
  • wage rate
  • employment
  • unemployment
  • young workers
  • vocational training
  • history
  • trend
  • niveau national
  • salaire minimum
  • législation du travail
  • commerce de détail
  • coût de la main-d'oeuvre
  • taux des salaires
  • emploi
  • chômage
  • jeune travailleur
  • formation professionnelle
  • histoire
  • tendance
  • nivel nacional
  • salario mínimo
  • legislación del trabajo
  • comercio minorista
  • costo de la mano de obra
  • tasa de salario
  • empleo
  • desempleo
  • joven trabajador
  • formación profesional
  • historia
  • tendencia
  • United States
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • comment.
  • graph.
  • bibliographie.
  • commentaire.
  • graphique.
  • bibliografía.
  • comentario.
  • gráfico.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p.126-129.
Contents
Introduction: Retail trade and retail service -- The impact of federal minimum wage legislation on the cost of labor in retail trade -- The impact of federal minimum wage legislation on employment and hours of work in retail trade -- Long-run effects on the acquisition of schooling, training, and wage growth -- Appendixes: Estimation of the impact of federal minimum wage regulation on the cost of labor in retail trade ; The impact of federal minimum wage regulation on employment and hours of work in retail trade ; Minimum wage regulation in retail trade and investments in human capital ; Minimum wage rates in retail trade, 1961-1981.
ISBN
  • 0844734195
  • 9780844734194
  • 0844734209
  • 9780844734200
LCCN
80039895
OCLC
  • ocm07172503
  • 7172503
  • SCSB-22597
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library