ESSAY TITLE AND SUBJECT:
“Minimum wages are likely to harm those they are designed to help”. Under what circumstances could this claim be correct. What light has the empirical analysis of the effects of minimum wages cast on this issue?
Course textbook:GB. Borjas, G. J Labor Economics Chapter3
Fallon, P., and Verry, D. The Economics of Labour Markets (Philip Allan, 1988). Chapters 3 and 4
Extensions
*Davis, S. J. and Haltiwanger, J. (1992) “Gross job creation, gross job destruction, and employment reallocation.” QJE (August).?Lazear, Edward P. and Spletzer, James R. (2012) “Measuring and Explaining the Collapse of the Labor Market in the Great Recession” AER Papers and Proceedings Vol 102, No. 3 pp 575-579
You must provide a full bibliography referencing all sources that you have consulted in the preparation of your essay. If you use internet sources the full reference must be provided not just the link/shortcut.