This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to
minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash …

This chapter surveys the literature on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor
markets. We describe and critically review the empirical methods in the new minimum wage …

The growth of income inequality is now recognized to be one of the most important
developments in employment relations of our time. While inequality has increased in many …

Just as employers face uncertainty when hiring workers, workers also face uncertainty when
accepting employment, and bad employers may opportunistically depart from expectations …

Can stronger state-level public policies help protect workers from “wage theft?” In recent
years, workers' rights groups have responded to policy drift and legislative inaction at the …

Low-wage work in the US and many other places continues to be characterized by
precarious and dangerous conditions, vulnerable immigrant workforces, and problems of …

Research on labor trafficking faces many methodological challenges, which make it difficult
to provide reliable estimates of the problem. In this research, we applied respondent-driven …

This article advances research on why international students, who comprise a growing
segment of the workforce in many countries, are underpaid. By revisiting Piore's dual frames …

Work is now more deadly than war, killing approximately 2.3 million people a year
worldwide. The United States, with its complex regulatory system, has one of the highest …

In many developing countries there is a substantial difference between de jure and de facto
regulation of minimum wages. We examine the consequences of this by looking at the …