The effects of living wage laws : evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns

Scott Adams; David Neumark

Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities without a law, and also permit the separate estimation of the effects of living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar laws in nearby cities. -- living wages ; wages ; employment

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Year of publication:	Apr. 2005
Other Persons:	Adams, Scott J. (contributor) ; Neumark, David (contributor)
Subject:	Mindestlohn \| Minimum wage \| Niedrigeinkommen \| Low income \| Städtischer Arbeitsmarkt \| Urban labour market \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| USA \| United States

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Extent:	Online-Ressource, 27, [7] p., text
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 1566
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Title from PDF file as viewed on 4/28/2005 Includes bibliographical references Also available in print System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader Mode of access: World Wide Web
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/33390 [Handle]
Classification:	J28 - Safety; Accidents; Industrial Health; Job Satisfaction, Related Public Policy ; J38 - Public Policy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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