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The Minimum Wage Law and Teenage Crime: Evidence From the US
Author(s) -
Hashimoto Masanori
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1989.tb01102.x
Subject(s) - minimum wage , unemployment , state (computer science) , economics , wage , labour economics , criminology , youth unemployment , sociology , economic growth , algorithm , computer science
What is the effect of minimum wage regulation on youth crime? Masanori Hashimoto, of Ohio State University, argues that in the USA the evidence suggests that the minimum wage causes both unemployment and teenage crime.