No Way Out: How Prime Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum Wage Jobs

Heather M. Boushey

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Abstract: This paper shows that more than one-third of prime-age minimum wage workers remain in low-wage jobs for at least three years.

Date: 2005-05

Published in WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, December 2005.

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