The Minimum Wage

No Way to Help the Poor

By (author) James S Coleman Professor of International Development Studies Deepak Lal

Paperback - £10.00

Publication date:

19 January 1995

Length of book:

38 pages

Publisher

IEA

ISBN-13: 9780255363440

Lal analyses the effects of minimum wages on unemployment and training, and concludes that they increase unemployment and reduce the incentive to acquire skills