Why Is There a Minimum Wage?

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The Minimum Wage is a wildly important and contentious aspect of modern economic life. But whether you believe it needs to go up or be eliminated altogether there’s an important question to ask, why does it exist at all?

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Minimum Wages by David Neumark and William L. Wascher
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