Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy
Arguments for a Minimum Wage
1st Edition
Published on 9. March 2018
XV, 245 pages
978-3-319-74448-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves the economic well-being of low-income workers, Levin-Waldman makes the case for the minimum wage as a way to improve the well-being of middle-income workers, strengthen the US economy, reduce income inequality, and enhance democracy. Making a timely and original contribution to the defining issues of our time-the state of the middle class, the problem of inequality, and the crisis of democratic governance-
Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy
will be of interest to students and researchers considering the impact of such approaches across the fields of public policy, economics, and political science.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XV, 245 p. 1 illus.
File size
1,80 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-319-74448-3 (9783319744483)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-74448-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/2018
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Person
Oren M. Levin-Waldman
is Professor of Public Policy at Metropolitan College of New York, USA. He is also Research Scholar at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a part-time faculty member in the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, USA.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Unsettled Findings.- 3. Middle Class Welfare Effects.- 4. The Minimum Wage and Job Creation.- 5. Minimum Wage and Income Distribution.- 6. Other Theoretical Frameworks.- 7. Minimum Wage and Greater Democracy.
