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The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns / Scott Adams, David Neumark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Scott.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11342.
- NBER working paper series no. w11342
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Effects of Living Wage Laws
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- 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 without a law, and also permit the separate estimation of the effects of living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar laws in nearby cities.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2005.
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