Labor and Wages

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Wanjiru Njoya

While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, revisionist historians see a series of complex events in which the political agenda of Radical Republicans dominated the South.

Wanjiru Njoya

Libertarians generally agree that slavery violates libertarian principles, but how does one deal with the aftermath of abolition? How best to justly compensate former slaves for what was taken from them by slaveowners? Wanjiru Njoya examines some libertarian alternatives.

Soham Patil

One of the most popular economic fallacies of our time is the belief that the absence of a minimum wage would lead to limitless exploitation of employees in the economy.

Scott Drylie Michael Brown

A new study at UC Berkeley claims that California‘s new $20 minimum wage has had no adverse economic effects. If only that were true.

Franco Guevara

In Costa Rica the aguinaldo—a legally-mandated Christmas bonus—is an acquired labor right and is meant to provide workers with additional financial security.

Lipton Matthews

Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.