The Political Economy of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Seltzer, Andrew

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“…Sobel (1999) asks whether the adjustment of the minimum wage is influenced by political factors other than economic factors, and he finds that unions play an important role. Many other studies show that the passage of the minimum-wage legislation and its subsequent increases are mainly driven by interest group pressures (Silberman and Durden 1976;Kau and Rubin 1978;Bloch 1980Bloch , 1993Seltzer 1995). Empirically, researchers looked at the relative power of some interest groups (the union vs. business ratio, for example, Sobel 1999;Johnson 2002), voting in congress elections, and ideological factors (Kau and Rubin 1978).…”

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Regional variation of the minimum wages in China

Xing

2016

IZA J Labor Develop

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This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum-wage policy and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimumwage data since the late 1990s. A large regional variation exists in the period studied, and the regional variation has been declining since the late 1990s. Economic factors, including GDP, economic structure, and consumption level, are the main determinants for the large regional variation in the minimum wages. There is evidence suggesting that the regional variation is influenced by political factors, such as competition of local officials. Jel codes: J3, E2

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Regional variation of the minimum wages in China

Xing

2016

IZA J Labor Develop

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“…Although approximating constituency interest through demographic characteristics has significant limitations (see Bishin 2000 for a discussion), existing accounts of minimum-wage vote choices suggest that district union activity is a crucial constituency-related consideration closely related to vote choice (Bloch 1975;Kau and Rubin 1978;Levin-Waldman 2001;Seltzer 1995;Silberman and Durden 1976;Sobel 1999;Uri and Mixon 1980). For members with districts that are more highly unionized, the clear and intense constituency signal on the minimum wage should lead to less instability as members feel electorally comfortable with their choice without regularly reassessing the prospective consequences.…”

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“…This process yielded a significantly weakened piece of legislation that lacked, among other things, any provision for adjusting the wage over time. In fact, the House made a decision not to delegate control of the wage level to an independent Wage and Hour Board and instead chose to maintain control of wage levels (Seltzer 1995). On the reasons for the precise timing of the periodic increases over time, see Sobel 1999.…”

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“…6. Cross-sectional analyses of minimum-wage roll calls have provided strong evidence for the importance of constituency interests in these decisions (Bloch 1975;Kau and Rubin 1978;Levin-Waldman 2001;Seltzer 1995;Silberman and Durden 1976;Sobel 1999;Uri and Mixon 1980), as well as some evidence for ideological decision making (Kau and Rubin 1978;Poole and Rosenthal 1991) and, to a lesser extent, partisan voting (Kau and Rubin 1978;Levin-Waldman 2001;Uri and Mixon 1980). 7.…”

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Long-Term Change and Stability in House Voting Decisions: The Case of the Minimum Wage

Meinke

2005

Legislative Studies Quarterly

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Although members of Congress exhibit considerable stability in their voting decisions on similar, recurring issues, members' long‐term voting histories reveal evidence of systematic instability as well. I argue that members reverse positions in predictable ways when the vote history loses value as a decision cue, and I present empirical evidence for this behavior in the context of the highly salient and regularly repeated House decisions on increasing the federal minimum wage. The empirical findings suggest that reversals of member positions are related to institutional, electoral, and constituency factors. I conclude by discussing the importance of these findings to understanding congressional decision making and representation.

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“…The minimum wage issue fails to make it past Barrier I most of the time because the primary beneficiaries, workers with few skills and low incomes, are notoriously difficult to organize, resulting in a lack of effective political demand for an increase in the minimum wage. Low‐income workers pay little attention to the policy process and fail to participate effectively (Seltzer, 1995, p. 1319; Silberman & Durden, 1976, p. 327). As a result, “.…”

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Policy Characteristics, Patterns of Politics, and the Minimum Wage: Toward a Typology of Redistributive Policies

Hayes

2007

Policy Studies Journal

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The central hypothesis of all policy typologies is that distinctively different patterns of politics can be identified for different types of public policy issues. Lowi identified three different policy types, which he termed distributive, regulative, and redistributive, each of which triggers a distinctively different pattern of political behavior. Unfortunately, Lowi's categories were inductively derived and ambiguously defined, leading to disagreements over how to categorize particular policies. Hayes built on Lowi's seminal effort, deriving Lowi's three policy categories from two underlying dimensions and identifying additional categories Lowi's original formulation had missed. Using the minimum wage issue as an example, this article will identify a critical deficiency in both these typologies. While Hayes' typology defines the boundaries between policy categories more precisely than Lowi's, neither typology is equipped to deal with variations in political patterns occurring within a particular cell. As this article will show, the minimum wage issue, although consistently redistributive in Hayes' terms, has manifested three very different patterns of politics at different points in time. Accordingly, a typology of redistributive policies will be advanced to account for these variations in the redistributive politics of the minimum wage.

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The Political Economy of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

Cited by 47 publications

References 13 publications

Regional variation of the minimum wages in China

Regional variation of the minimum wages in China

Long-Term Change and Stability in House Voting Decisions: The Case of the Minimum Wage

Policy Characteristics, Patterns of Politics, and the Minimum Wage: Toward a Typology of Redistributive Policies

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