Time For A Real Raise The Nova Scotia Minimum Wage

Increasing the minimum wage impacts not only the workers receiving the minimum wage. [...] The stagnation of the minimum wage over the past two decades is at least partially responsible for the plight of the working poor in Nova Scotia, many of whom earn somewhat more than the minimum wage. [...] Providing a real increase in the minimum wage would boost the wages of these and many more workers in need of a raise. [...] It addresses the economic impact of the minimum wage in the context of an economy that is producing too many low wage jobs, and considers some of the arguments against increasing the minimum wage. [...] The minimum wage sets a social standard or tone, and many public debates, as well as innumerable disputes inside the workplace, use the minimum wage as an implicit guide to construct arguments, to assess all wage scales, to measure the relative standards of one's enterprise.1 When the minimum wage is increased it creates an upward pressure on other wages.

Monograph on minimum wages, with special reference to Canada - covers trends since 1965 concerning local level wage structure and wage determination, and deals with economic theory issues regarding employment, unemployment, income distribution and prices, effectiveness as an anti-poverty and income redistribution tool, and its preference to negative income tax. Bibliography pp. 111 to 119 and statistical tables.

This study charts trends and rankings of minimum wages in Canada's ten provinces and three territories, as well as in the form of a national weighted average. It establishes a set of baseline indicators that will be updated regularly to provide an invaluable time series on minimum wages and minimum wage workers in Canada. Researchers will be able to analyze in depth trends and patterns in minimum wages and minimum wage workers both nationally and from one jurisdiction to another across the country. Policy makers, administrators and researchers will have a unique source of comprehensive information from which to cull evidence that can help inform and test their arguments.

Report on recent minimum wage research in Canada - discusses the related issues of poverty, cost of living allowance, guaranteed income and the viability of small scale industry, as well as the effects of a minimum wage on employment, productivity, industrial structure and wages and price levels, etc. Bibliography pp. 58 to 60, references and statistical tables.

The first includes also proceedings of the 28th annual convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors and the 30th annual convention of the International Association of Labor Commissioners. These two associations united at this convention to form the Association of Governmental Labor Officals of the United States and Canada.