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Minimum Wage: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Minimum Wage: Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin
Minimum
Wage
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Chapter Outline
• Traditional Economic Analysis Of A
Minimum Wage
• Rebuttal To The Traditional Analysis
• Where Are Economists Now?
• Kick It Up A Notch
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Supply
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B
Demand
0 Lmin L* Labor
Small number of displaced workers