The Minimum Wage Debate

Microeconomics and the minimum wage debate

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/01/minimum-wage-and-state-microeconomics

Textbook Economics and the Minimum Wage

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/03/08/Economics-Isn-t-Textbook-Why-We-Need-Raise-Minimum-Wage

Where should the federal minimum wage be set?

http://www.epi.org/files/2015/we-can-afford-a-12-federal-minimum-wage.pdf

http://www.fastcompany.com/3059278/election-2016/is-a-15-national-minimum-wage-actually-feasible

The Economist summarizes recent research on the impact on minimum wage hikes:

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21659714-large-increases-minimum-wage-could-have-severe-long-term-effects-destination

Minimum Wage and Economic Mobility - A thought-provoking piece from Ben Casselman:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-getting-harder-to-move-beyond-a-minimum-wage-job/

“Even those who do get a raise often don’t get much of one: Two-thirds of minimum-wage workers in 2013 were still earning within 10 percent of the minimum wage a year later, up from about half in the 1990s. And two-fifths of Americans earning the minimum wage in 2008 were still in near-minimum-wage jobs five years later, despite the economy steadily improving during much of that time”

Related:

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-03-18/companies-should-experiment-with-minimum-pay-raises
http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf

Update

An interesting piece from Noah Smith
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-13/a-higher-minimum-wage-won-t-lead-to-armageddon