employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying …. In our panel data analyses of all California or national local minimum wages, there is evidence pointing to declines in …

a measure of consumer revealed preferences for local leisure-oriented amenities. Population and employment growth in the …

administrative data from California together with a regression kink (RK) design to estimate the causal impacts of benefits in the …

lowered immigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paper analyzes the role of … results show that variation in the unemployment and employment rates across MSAs and states explain the observed relative post …-welfare reform decrease among immigrants, with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment and …

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We obtain robust evidence that the California program more than doubled … by a similar amount. -- parental leave ; maternity leave ; leave-taking ; paid leave ; maternal employment …

hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 …

production, or urbanization economies in consumption. On their own, none of these urban scale effects generate the observed …. -- Agglomeration ; urbanization economies ; congestion ; regional equilibrium ; natural advantage ; economic geography …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …