The minimum wage and labor market outcomes/ (Record no. 162879)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262013239
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency CUS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 331.23
Item number FLI/M
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Flinn, Christopher J.
245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The minimum wage and labor market outcomes/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Christopher J. Flinn.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The MIT Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2010.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, [2], 306p.
Other physical details il. ;
Dimensions 24 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1 Introduction 1<br/>1.1 Plan of the Book 2<br/>1.2 Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimum Wage 3<br/>1.3 Brief History of the Minimum Wage in the United States 10<br/>1.4 State Minimum Wages 14<br/>2 Descriptive Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects 17<br/>2.1 The Data Source 18<br/>2.2 Who Are the Minimum Wage Workers? 24<br/>2.3 Impacts of Minimum Wage Changes on Wages 28<br/>3 A Model of Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market<br/>Careers 35<br/>3.1 Characterization of the Labor Market Career 38<br/>3.2 The Stationary Labor Market Environment 41<br/>3.3 The Decision-Theoretic Model 43<br/>3.3.1 Nash-Bargained Employment Contracts 53<br/>3.3.2 The Search-Bargaining Model luithout Minimum Wages 56<br/>3.4 Bargaining with a Minimum Wage Constraint 61<br/>3.5 The Labor Market Participation Decision 66<br/>3.6 Endogeneity of the Rate of Contacts 67<br/>4 Labor Market and Welfare Impacts of Minimum Wages 73<br/>4.1 Minimum Wages and Labor Market Status 73<br/>4.1.1 Minimum Wages and Unemployment 74<br/>4.1.2 The Impact of Minimum Wage Changes on<br/>Wage Distributions 80<br/>4.2 Welfare Measures 82<br/>4.2.1 General Welfare Criteria 82<br/>4.2.2 Specific Welfare Measures 84<br/>Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes:<br/>A Selective Survey 95<br/>5.1 Surveys of Empirical Studies of Minimum Wage Effects 96<br/>5.2 Empirical Studies of "Large Impacts" and Methodological<br/>Innovations 97<br/>5.2.1 Pereira (2003) 97<br/>5.2.2 Bell (1997) 100<br/>5.2.3 Canipolieti et al. (2005) 101<br/>5.2.4 Machin et al. (2003) 104<br/>5.2.5 Dinardo et al. (1996) 105<br/>5.3 Alternative Behavioral Frameworks 108<br/>5.3.1 Meper and Wise (1983a, b) 108<br/>5.3.2 Van den Ber^^ (2003) 110<br/>5.3.3 Eckstein and Wolpin (1990) 111<br/>5.3.4 Van den Birp and Bidder (1998) 113<br/>Assessing the Welfare Impacts of Actual Changes in the<br/>Minimum Wage 117<br/>6.1 Results Using Unconditional Wage Distributions 119<br/>6.2 Results for Conditional Wage Distributions 121<br/>6.3 Results Using Matched Data 124<br/>6.4 Welfare Impacts of the 1996 and 1997 Statutory Minimum Wage<br/>Increases 125<br/>6.4.1 Tests Utilizing Cross-sectional Wage Distributions 126<br/>6.4.2 Tests Utilizing Panel Data 127<br/>6.5 Data and Empirical Results 129<br/>6.5.1 Cross-sectional Wage Distribution Results 131<br/>6.5.2 Empirical Analysis Using the Matched CPS Sample 136<br/>Econometric Issues 141<br/>7.1 Identification of Choice-Theoretic Search Models 141<br/>7.2 Estimation of the Bargaining Model 147<br/>7.3 Model Identification 152<br/>7.3.1 No Minimum Wage 153<br/>7.3.2 Binding Minimum Wage 156<br/>7.3.3 Some Additional Identification Devices 158<br/>7.3.4 Use of Demand Side Information to Estimate a 159<br/>7.4 Estimation of Demand Side Parameters 162<br/>8 Model Estimates and Tests 167<br/>8.1 Parameter Estimates Using Profit Information 169<br/>8.2 Estimates of Demand Side Parameters and the Matching<br/>Function 175<br/>8.3 Model Fit 179<br/>9 Optimal Minimum Wages 185<br/>10 On-the-Job Search 195<br/>10.1 Introduction 195<br/>10.2 Model Specifications 198<br/>10.2.1 The Model with Renegotiation 200<br/>10.2.2 The Model without Renegotiation 207<br/>10.2.3 Examples 208<br/>10.3 Endogenous Contact Rates 212<br/>10.3.1 Specification of the Matching Function with OT] Search 212<br/>10.3.2 Labor Market Participation Decisions 215<br/>10.4 Estimation Issues 216<br/>10.5 Estimation Results 221<br/>10.6 Optimal Minimum Wages with OT] Search 225<br/>11 Heterogeneity 229<br/>11.1 Introducing Heterogeneity into the Basic Search Model 230<br/>11.2 Detecting Heterogeneity 237<br/>11.3 Observed Heterogeneity 242<br/>11.4 Unobserved Heterogeneity 244<br/>11.5 An Extended Example 248<br/>11.6 Implications of Heterogeneity for Equilibrium and Labor<br/>Market Policies 255<br/>11.6.1 General Equilibrium and Heterogeneity 256<br/>11.6.2 Policy Implications 257<br/>12 Conclusion 261<br/>12.1 Theory 261<br/>12.2 Limitations of the Modeling Framework 262<br/>12.3 Empirical Findings and Lessons 264
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword Minimum wage.
651 ## - SUBJECT--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Labor market.
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