Overview
- Offers timely analysis of hugely topical issues surrounding public policy and inequality
- Takes a novel approach, shifting thinking on the minimum wage towards its impact on the middle classes
- Contains original work by one of the leading and most-long-standing academics in the field
Part of the book series: Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity (GISP)
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This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves the economic well-being of low-income workers, Levin-Waldman makes the case for the minimum wage as a way to improve the well-being of middle-income workers, strengthen the US economy, reduce income inequality, and enhance democracy. Making a timely and original contribution to the defining issues of our time—the state of the middle class, the problem of inequality, and the crisis of democratic governance—Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy will be of interest to students and researchers considering the impact of such approaches across the fields of public policy, economics, and political science.
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About the author
Oren M. Levin-Waldman is Professor of Public Policy at Metropolitan College of New York, USA. He is also Research Scholar at the Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a part-time faculty member in the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy
Book Subtitle: Arguments for a Minimum Wage
Authors: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
Series Title: Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74448-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74447-6Published: 20 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08994-8Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74448-3Published: 09 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-5511
Series E-ISSN: 2730-552X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 245
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic Policy, Public Policy, Labor Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods