Minimum Wages
Minimum Wages

Author: David Neumark

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0262141027

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A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.

Monitoring International Labor Standards
Monitoring International Labor Standards

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2004-06-11

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 0309091349

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This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Research Council's Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the committee's work is in two partsâ€"this report and a database structure. Together, they offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive review of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.

Minimum Wages and Safety Standards
Minimum Wages and Safety Standards

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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Considers various proposals to amend the D.C. Minimum Wage Act, and H.R. 895 and companion S. 2820, to revise safety standards for D.C. industrial workers.

Protecting Youth at Work
Protecting Youth at Work

Author: National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1998-12-18

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0309064139

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In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.