Wages, school quality, and employment demand /

Main Author: Card, David E. 1956-
Other Authors: Krueger, Alan B., Akee, Randall K. Q., Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Series:IZA Prize in Labor Economics series
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Table of Contents:
  • Ingenuity and creativity : David Card and Alan Krueger
  • School quality, earnings, and black-white wage differences. Does school quality matter? : returns to education and the characteristics of public schools in the United States. School quality and black-white relative earnings : a direct assessment. School resources and student outcomes : an overview of the literature and new evidence from North and South Carolina. Experimental estimates of education production functions
  • Minimum wages and employment demand. Using regional variation in wages to measure the effects of the federal minimum wage. Minimum wages and employment : a case study of the fast-food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A re-analysis of the effect of the New Jersey minimum wage with representative payroll data. Unexpected inflation, real wages, and employment determination in union contracts
  • Concluding thoughts