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Bernhardt, Annette; Spiller, Michael W.; Polson, Diana – Social Forces, 2013
Despite three decades of scholarship on economic restructuring in the United States, employers' violations of minimum wage, overtime and other workplace laws remain understudied. This article begins to fill the gap by presenting evidence from a large-scale, original worker survey that draws on recent advances in sampling methodology to reach…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Employment Patterns, Labor, Labor Market
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Warren, John Robert; Hamrock, Caitlin – Social Forces, 2010
Does increasing the minimum wage reduce the high school completion rate? Previous research has suffered from (1. narrow time horizons, (2. potentially inadequate measures of states' high school completion rates, and (3. potentially inadequate measures of minimum wage rates. Overcoming each of these limitations, we analyze the impact of changes in…
Descriptors: Minimum Wage, Wages, Correlation, High School Graduates