compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …

In this paper I review what we have learned about living wage laws and their impacts on the wages, employment and … raised wage levels of low wage workers and have reduced their employment at covered firms, but that the magnitudes of both …