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From classroom to wedding aisle: The effect of a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law on age at first marriage in the UK

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Adireksombat, Kampon - 2010

Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at … first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …

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

Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - 2005

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...

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Minimum wages, the earned income tax credit, and employment: evidence from the post-welfare reform era

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - 2007

We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...

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Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity

Neumark, David - 2008

The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment: Do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - 2012

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

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