The minimum wage: its relation to incomes and poverty.
Empirical evidence from the March 1985 Current Population Survey suggests that people earning the minimum wage are not necessarily poor. Whether a minimum wage earner was poor in March 1985 partly depended on the employment status and number of his family members. Although the likelihood of being...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 110; pp. 24 - 31 |
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US Department of Labor
Jun87
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