"Who Gets What" from Minimum Wage Hikes: A Re-Estimation of Card and Krueger's Distributional Analysis in Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage.

I've studied the arguments and the evidence for and against a minimum wage increase I believe that the weight of the evidence is that a modest increase does not cost jobs, and may even lure people into the job market. But the most important thing is, you can't make a living on $4.25 an hour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]