scholarly journals Analysing the Politics of Nigeria’s 2019 National Minimum Wage: Towards a Public Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Oshagwu Opone ◽  
Kelvin Obi Kelikwuma
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage

The Politics of the Minimum Wage. By Jerold Waltman. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 172p. $24.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-226
Author(s):  
Byron W. Daynes
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Made In

Upon receiving Jerald Waltman's book, the first thing I read was the dedication to the author's "coworkers at A. & W. Root Beer, Ruston, Louisiana, 1963­67." I like root beer, but I wondered whether a mistake had been made in sending me this book to review. It did not take long to realize no mistake had been made. This is a book that treats minimum wage as symbolic politics, but, more important, it entirely reexamines public policy.

Minimum Wages and Nascent Entrepreneurship in the US

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kwapisz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Labor Economics ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurship ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Us ◽  
Startup Process

Abstract The effect of minimum wages on employment is one of the most widely studied and most controversial topics in labor economics and public policy but its impact on early startups is poorly understood and under-researched. In this manuscript, we investigate whether minimum wage rates correlate with the probability that a nascent startup hires employees and achieves profitability, a topic that has never been addressed before. We found negative but not significant correlation between the minimum wage rates and a nascent venture’s probability of hiring employees. However, female entrepreneurs were significantly less likely than male entrepreneurs to hire when faced with higher minimum wage rates. For ventures with employees, higher minimum wage rates were correlated with lower probability of achieving profitability vs. quitting the startup process.

The determinants of state minimum wage rates: A public policy approach

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerold Waltman ◽  
Sarah Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Wage Rates

Protecting Vulnerable Workers: How Public Policy and Private Employers Shape the Contemporary Low-Wage Work Experience

2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Haley-Lock ◽  
Melissa Ford Shah
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Structural Vulnerability ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Working Families ◽  
Wage Employment ◽  
Vulnerable Workers

This paper presents a conceptual approach to understanding how government and private employers shape the employment experiences of contemporary low-wage workers. After reviewing recent changes in employment conditions that have disproportionately affected poor working families, we present two perspectives on the structural vulnerability for low-wage workers: policy and organizational stratification. The stratification approach suggests that public policy and private workplace practices interact with workers' personal and family circumstances to shape the outcomes of low-wage employment. Applying these lenses to restaurant workers, we examine why and how some workers may be uniquely disadvantaged by emerging proposals to change minimum wage laws. Promising directions for intervention are also discussed.

Creating value and mitigating harm: Assessing institutional objectives in Australian industrial relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel E Cutcher-Gershenfeld ◽  
Joe Isaac
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Employment Legislation

The degree to which legislation on labour relations and other societal institutions creates value and mitigates harm is explored in this article through a framework designed to guide both the authoring and the analysis of objects of such legislation. Creating value and mitigating harm are typically explicit in the objects of public policy and implicit in adjudication, administration and adherence under public policies. Although conceptually distinct, creating value and mitigating harm can be both complementary and detrimental to each other. This article reviews various combinations of legislative objects over more than a century of Australian labour and employment relations policy. The objects examined include the prevention of industrial disputes, the introduction of a social minimum wage, the expansion of enterprise bargaining, expansion or curtailment of tribunal powers by government and other developments. Questions of ‘for whom?’ value is created or harm is mitigated are key. As an inductive study, the article concludes with hypotheses to guide future research, including implications that reach beyond Australia and employment legislation. JEL Codes: K31; K38; M14; M52

scholarly journals The Minimum Wage as Method of Alleviating Poverty: Current Practices versus Alternative Policy and Legal Resolutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Yuyang Li ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Xinxin Deng
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Issue ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Minimum ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Poverty is a social issue that impacts much of the world, including the United States. Oftentimes, proponents of the minimum wage argue that a higher minimum wage would help alleviate poverty in the country. Whether or not there will be impacts, or how significant the impact will be, is a subject of debate. The paper first analyzes arguments in support of using the minimum wage to reduce poverty in the US. Then, arguments against the current minimum wage are presented. Discussion regarding alternatives or alterations to the current minimum wage is raised at the end of the paper that would provide a more sustainable and legally sound public policy choice. This includes an analysis of the current minimum wage policies in the city of Philadelphia as example.

Comment

ILR Review ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Piore
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Undocumented Migration ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Native Workers

This comment presents a brief response to Fogel's criticism of the author's position on immigration policy. Piore summarizes his recent study, Birds of Passage, as arguing in part that most undocumented migration to this country in recent years has been initiated by employers with jobs to fill that native workers shun; that most migrants originally intended their stay to be temporary; and that severe problems resulted when this migration, like many others, failed to remain temporary in nature. The author recommends that public policy should focus less on controlling the supply of foreign labor than on controlling the demand for such labor, through improving the terms and enforcement of minimum wage and similar laws.

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