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Welfare Effects of Minimum Wage and Other Government Policies

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  • Amos Golan

    (American University)

  • Jeffrey Perloff

    (University of California, Berkeley, and Giannini Foundation)

  • Ximing Wu

    (University of California, Berkeley)

Abstract

The minimum wage, unlike most government transfer programs, lowered welfare in the 1980s and 1990s as measured by all commonly used welfare or inequality measures, including various Atkinson indexes, the Gini index, standard deviation of logarithms, and others. The effects of most government programs, macroeconomic variables, and aggregate demographic characteristics were qualitatively the same for all the inequality measures.

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  • Amos Golan & Jeffrey Perloff & Ximing Wu, 2001. "Welfare Effects of Minimum Wage and Other Government Policies," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series 957, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:agrebk:957
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