An introduction to the "Gloves-off economy" / Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly -- Working beyond the reach or grasp of employment law / Noah D. Zatz -- Putting wages back into competition : deunionization and degradation in place-bound industries / Ruth Milkman...

This article studies minimum wage non-compliance in Honduras, a dual labor market with high wage floors that are weakly enforced. However, rather than just counting how many workers earn sub-minimum wages, it also estimates violation indices that measure compliance at the intensive margin. I...

This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...