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Title: Rethinking Retail: How Investments in the Retail Workforce Can Affect Families, Firms, and Economic Growth

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Many retail firms profess that they cannot afford to raise wages for their employees, let alone provide more generous benefits. But this economist finds that raising wages to $25,000 a year for full-time employees would increase the price for a retail product on average by only 15 cents.

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Authors: Ruetschlin, Catherine

Periodical (Full): Challenge

Issue: 2

Volume: 56

Pages: 31-52

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Topics: Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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