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 …

omitted-ability bias from wage equation estimates of industry effects the exacerbation of measurement error from … misclassification of industry, and selectivity with respect to industry changes. However, this approach may introduce other problems …

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