The general presumption has been that minimum-wage effects on total employment are so small that there is little need to focus on this measure as an outcome variable, hence the focus of minimum wage studies on low-wage markets such as those for teens and restaurant workers.
The average hourly wages of young women are lower than those of their male counterparts just after graduation from either high school or college, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on low-wage workers.
The impact of immigration on low-wage American workers, he said, is probably worse than the study reports because it looked at data from before the current recession.
Increasing the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers.
The focus is on the effects of living wages on low-wage or low-skill workers, and on low-income families.
Often these are unemployed or those on low wages.
They live an isolated, spartan, nomadic lifestyle on low wages.
The real, underlying picture is that people are on low wages so the recovery is flawed.
"People on low wages and benefits have been dramatically affected".
"Because we're on low wages.
