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The Effect of Minimum Wage Rates on High School Completion
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Warren, John Robert; Hamrock, Caitlin – Social Forces, 2010
Does increasing the minimum wage reduce the high school completion rate? Previous research has suffered from (1. narrow time horizons, (2. potentially inadequate measures of states' high school completion rates, and (3. potentially inadequate measures of minimum wage rates. Overcoming each of these limitations, we analyze the impact of changes in…
Descriptors: Minimum Wage, Wages, Correlation, High School Graduates