After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …

This article explores the effects of living wages on low-wage workers and low-income families. First, earlier analyses … confirms earlier findings that business-assistance living wage laws boost wages of the lowest wage workers at the cost of some … that the poverty reductions generated by living wages may stem from income gains for individuals with higher wages or …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …