Search Results
Title: Just Getting By? Income Dependence On Minimum Wage Jobs
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Schiller, Bradley R. |
|
Just Getting By? Income Dependence On Minimum Wage Jobs Final Report, Washington, DC: Employment Policies Institute, March 2011. Also: http://epionline.org/study_detail.cfm?sid=132 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Employment Policies Institute Keyword(s): Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Employment, Part-Time; Family Income; Job Satisfaction; Minimum Wage; Wage Growth; Work Histories Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Schiller’s study shows that only a small minority of adults age 33 to 50 who earn at or below the minimum wage are the primary (or sole) breadwinner in their household. Previous research has shown that long-term minimum wage earners (while an enormously small portion of the population) often lack basic job skills needed to move up in the workforce. Paradoxically, raising the minimum wage in an attempt to help this small subset of minimum wage workers can actually harm them; decades of economic research show that artificially raising the cost to hire and train these employees makes it likely that management will hire a more-skilled employee to do their job (or replace that job with an automated, self-service alternative). |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Schiller, Bradley R. "Just Getting By? Income Dependence On Minimum Wage Jobs." Final Report, Washington, DC: Employment Policies Institute, March 2011. |