Papers presented at a conference held at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., Nov. 1 and 2, 1979

Includes bibliographical references

Introduction / Simon Rottenberg -- The effect of a legal minimum wage on the pay and employment of teenage students and nonstudents / James F. Ragan, Jr. -- The effects of federal minimum wages on the industrial distribution of teenage employment / Robert F. Cotterman -- The impact of minimum wages on teenage schooling and on the part-time / full-time employment of youths / J. Peter Mattila -- The impact of minimum wages on youth employment, hours of work, and school attendance : cross-sectional evidence from the 1960 and 1970 censuses / James Cunningham -- Some determinants of the level and racial composition of teenage employment / Nabeel Al-Salam, Aline Quester, Finis Welch -- The effects of minimum wages on human capital formation / Linda Leighton and Jacob Mincer -- Some aspects of the social pathological behavioral effects of unemployment among young people / Llad Phillips -- The impact of minimum wages on private household workers / Kenneth Gordon -- What have minimum wages done in agriculture? / Bruce Gardner -- The impact of federal minimum wage laws on employment of seasonal cotton farm workers / John M. Trapani and J.R. Moroney -- Minimum wages and the distribution of economic activity / Marshall R. Colberg -- The overtime pay provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act / Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Paul L. Schumann -- Differential legal minimum wages / Philip Cotterill -- Macroeconomic implications of the minimum wage / J. Huston McCulloch -- Minimum wages in Puerto Rico / Simon Rottenberg -- The impact of minimum wages on industrial employment in Chile / Vittorio Corbo -- The effects of minimum wage regulation in France / Jean-Jacques Rosa -- Legal minimum wages as an instrument of social policy in less developed countries, with special reference to Costa Rica / Peter Gregory -- The determinants of minimum wage levels and coverage in state minimum wage laws / James C. Cox and Ronald L. Oaxaca -- Minimum wages and personal income / Carolyn Shaw Bell -- The low-wage workers : who are they? / Thomas J. Kniesner -- An overview of the effect of minimum wages on employment opportunities / Sherwin Rosen -- Employment aspects of the Fair Labor Standards Act : comments on the Philips and Ehrennberg-Schumann essays / Solomon William Polachek -- Comments on the substitution effects of minimum wage legislation / William Fellner -- Employment effects and determinants of minimum wage laws; an analysis of current research / Barry R. Chiswick -- Comments on differential minimum wages and minimum wage policies / Isaac Ehrlich -- The context of recent research / Robert S. Goldfarb -- The unanswered question : Why are minimum wages popular with the poor? / Keith B. Leffler