This study investigates the effects of Federal minimum wage policy on mini-mum wage employment, aggregate employment, and average wage rates. The theoretical analysis focuses on the possible effect of the Federal minimum wage in constraining wages and employment in a subset of labor markets, on...

This paper contains an empirical study of the effects of credibility on the cost of disinflation. The analysis is based on a dataset comprised of seventy-two disinflation episodes from 19 OECD countries. We measure the "ex ante credibility" of a disinflation episode as the probability of a...

This study investigates the effects of Federal minimum wage policy on mini-mum wage employment, aggregate employment, and average wage rates. The theoretical analysis focuses on the possible effect of the Federal minimum wage in constraining wages and employment in a subset of labor markets, on...