What Does the Minimum Wage Do?

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments We wish to express our sincere thanks to Tim Bartik and Kevin Hollenbeck of the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research for their guidance and patience with this long effort. We are particularly indebted to Tim Butcher, chief economist at the UK Low Pay Commission, and Felix Ritchie, professor at the University of the West England, for providing the data needed to reproduce graphics in their reports. Also, thanks to the participants in the Upjohn Institute seminar in March 2010 on the minimum wage and the Meta-Analysis of Economic Research Network Colloquium in September 2013 for comments and insights. Particular thanks are owed to Kritkorn Nawakitphaitoon, a former gradate student in the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University, now a professor at Renmin University in Beijing, for assembling the data on the overwhelming number of articles reviewed in this book, and for an almost equal amount that was dropped from the review. And, of course, deepest thanks to Allison Colosky not only for her help in thinking through the book and for working with us on the rewriting and editing of the manuscript, but also for her boundless patience and good humor. Belman and Wolfson.indb xiii Belman and Wolfson.indb xiii 6/16/2014 12:04:12 PM 6/16/2014 12:04:12 PM Belman and Wolfson.indb xiv Belman and Wolfson.indb xiv 6/16/2014 12:04:14 PM 6/16/2014 12:04:14 PM ...