"Who Gets What" from Minimum Wage Hikes: A Re-Estimation of Card and Krueger's Distributional Analysis in Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage

Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion

“…However, they also find that there are no effects on adults Wascher (1996, 2000), Burkhauser et al (1996bBurkhauser et al ( , 2000). Card and Krueger (1995) conduct a series of studies where they argued that minimum wage increases of 1990's did not reduce employment, suggesting that affected markets are possibly monopsonistic.…”

The Very Idea of Applying Economics: The Modern Minimum-Wage Controversy and Its Antecedents

“…But, at the same time, CK are obliged to say that the minimum wage is a "blunt instrument" for redistributing income to poor families and find that "the effect of the minimum wage on the overall poverty rate of adults is statistically undetectable" (1995,285,280; see also Burkhauser, Couch, and Wittenberg 1996). 24 Even if one believes that minimum-wage increases do not disemploy low-wage workers, or is prepared to suffer disemployment as a cost of redistribution, it is significant that minimum wages do so little for the goals of poverty reduction or progressive income redistribution.…”

State Type and Congressional Voting on the Minimum Wage

“…Moreover, because only a relatively small portion of the workforce earn the minimum wage (Burkhauser, Couch & Wittenburg, 1996;Shapiro, 1990Shapiro, -1991Burkhauser & Finegan, 1989), and those who do --teenagers, the working poor and others with low socio-economic status--are usually less likely to vote (Verba & Nie, 1972), labor unions might conceivably be the only real constituency for the minimum wage. Therefore, it isn't implausible to expect that as this constituency erodes in terms of its membership, so too will its influence on the legislative process.…”