Unit1 Micro: Can a minimum wage create jobs?
Monday, January 16, 2012
by Geoff Riley
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Tim Harford has a piece in his regular column in the Financial Times which discusses some of the issues surrounding the minimum wage and whether a legal pay floor can actually create jobs. Here is the link
Categories: AS and A2 Specifications AQA Economics Unit 1 EdExcel Economics Unit 1 AS Micro Government Intervention Minimum Prices Labour Market Market Equilibrium and Price Price Mechanism in Action Teaching of Economics Unemployment
Tags: pay, minimum wage, monopsony, tim harford, pay floor
Tags: pay, minimum wage, monopsony, tim harford, pay floor
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