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Author: Employment Policies Institute
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1. Employment Policies Institute
Just Getting By? Income Dependence on Minimum Wage Jobs
Policy Brief, Washington, DC: Employment Policies Institute, March 2011.
Also: http://epionline.org/studies/Schiller_Policy_Brief.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Employment Policies Institute
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC); Employment, Part-Time; Family Income; Job Satisfaction; Minimum Wage; Wage Growth

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Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), Schiller looks at employment and family income for minimum wage workers between the ages of 33 and 50, in the years between 1998 and 2006 when the federal minimum wage was unchanged at $5.15 an hour.
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Employment Policies Institute. "Just Getting By? Income Dependence on Minimum Wage Jobs." Policy Brief, Washington, DC: Employment Policies Institute, March 2011.