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Title: Minimum Wage Youth: Training and Wage Growth
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Schiller, Bradley R. |
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Minimum Wage Youth: Training and Wage Growth Industrial Relations Research Association Series, Proceedings 43rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. Madison WI: Industrial Relation Research Association, 1990: pp. 266-275 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Industrial Relations Research Association ==> LERA Keyword(s): Firm Size; Gender Differences; Geographical Variation; Marital Status; Minimum Wage; Racial Differences; Training; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The debate over minimum wage thresholds and the larger controversy about good jobs versus bad jobs share a common concern; namely whether low-wage jobs are inherently dead end. The observations reported here suggest that that concern is ill-founded, at least with respect to younger workers. Young labor market entrants certainly don't perceive their minimum wage jobs in that way. A substantial majority of minimum wage youth believe they are acquiring valuable skills, have opportunities for promotion, and even say they like their jobs. The longitudinal experiences of minimum wage youth provide an even more compelling refutation of the notion that minimum wage jobs are inherently dead end. Since virtually all young people hold a job paying the minimum wage or less at some point in their work history, that blanket assertion can be dismissed out of hand. The evidence shows further that youths entering the labor market in the 1980s did particularly well. Specifically, those who started at the minimum wage in 1980 enjoyed impressive wage gains over the subsequent seven years. Insofar as young workers are concerned, minimum wage jobs are correctly viewed as transitions to better jobs, not dead-end endeavors. |
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