used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …

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 …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using …

percent of the variance in log wages for migrants with a given number of years of schooling is due to differences within …