Minimum wages and skill acquisition: another look at schooling effects.

Autor/inn/en	Neumark, David; Wascher, William
Titel	Minimum wages and skill acquisition: another look at schooling effects.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 22 (2003) 1, S. 1-10Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 16; Tabellen 4
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/S0272-7757(02)00006-7
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Eltern; Schulbesuch; Einkommen; Qualifikation; Arbeitnehmer; USA
Abstract	Although economic research on minimum wages has focused predominantly on employment effects, some attention has been devoted to the analysis of the effects of minimum wages on skill acquisition and education. This paper takes another look at evidence on the effects of minimum wages on schooling, seeking to reconcile some of the contradictory results in recent research, using CPS data from the late 1970s through the 1980s. Based on this re-examination, as well as on additional results updating the data through 1998, we conclude that the evidence points to negative effects of minimum wages on school enrollment, bolstering the findings of negative effects of minimum wages on enrollment from a number of recent studies, as well as some older ones, and countering claims that appeared to overturn at least some of this evidence. (DIPF/Orig.)
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)