Ten Unavoidable Problems with a "Living" Minimum Wage from 100% Waste of Your Money to Millions Unemployed

By Steve Baba

Part I. Unavoidable Problems with a Living Minimum Wage1. Millions More Unemployed Even If the Number of Jobs Remains Constant. 2. High-cost labor will be used at a too-high wage, reducing total output. 3. Mandatory Discrimination Against the Disadvantaged. Nobody will Hire Disadvantaged Labor. 4. In the long run, more people will choose to remain minimum wage workers, reducing output.5. Job Lock and few minimum-wage job openings. People will be locked into bad minimum wage jobs.6. Wasteful Rent Seeking Job Search Costs 7. Unethical Rent Seeking Costs such as the Casting Couch8. Knocking the first step off the job ladder for people who need it the most.9. Reduced Job Training for Everyone. 10. Very Inaccurate Redistribution.Part II. Problems with Card Krueger and other irrelevant, misleading pro-minimum wage arguments11. Introduction to Part II. An interesting discussion on how many jobs will be lost (not unemployment), but it really does not change the fact that a high minimum wage is an awful idea in any case.12. There will be virtually no mass layoffs of workers if the minimum wage is raised to $10.13. As a percent of the total jobs, the effect of raising the minimum wage on number of jobs as is small and close to zero if not zero and is difficult to distinguish from zero. 14. Card-Krueger Fast Food Surveys. Extraordinary Claims Based on Telephone Surveys.15. Why raising the minimum wage had or has a "small" or no effect on the number of job as a percent of the total jobs.16. Monopsony - Is this McDonald's Run Like it's the Only Employer in a Mining- Company Town?17. Bargaining Models and Market Power18. Nonprofit Groups, Unlike McDonald's, can't pass the cost increase along to customers. Fewer Services To The Needy Will Be Provided. 19. In the Long Run people will buy efficient gasoline-saving cars. In the long run, employers will buy efficient, labor-saving equipment.20. A Minimum Wage Increase is The Worst Keynesian Stimulus That I Have Ever Heard of.21. Ripple (Spillover) Benefits are also Ripple Costs and Ripple Distortions.22. Conclusion: Ten Unavoidable Problems and More Likely Problems. Why would anyone want a high minimum wage?Using non-technical language and a dialogue format, this short book explains the problems with a high "living" minimum wage and the misleading minimum wage arguments. Economics concepts are presented in a Socratic discussion with a labor activist at McDonald's. The book's appendix contains supporting peer-reviewed work. Questions and classroom exercises are included. The author has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park and has taught economics in the United States, Europe and Asia.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500749869
• ISBN13: 9781500749866
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"