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 …

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 …

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

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …