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 …

intrametropolitan opportunity structure and local area context, especially spatial structure, urban employment pattern, social … environment, and ethnic concentration, on Asian and Latino immigrants’ incidence of self-employment. These two groups grew … immigrants in a local area both give rise to immigrant entrepreneurship. Results suggest that traditional theories such as …

of highly educated domestic migrants but that there are some important differences. Gateway states are substantially more … for the attraction of both foreign and domestic highly educated in-migrants, but the deterrent effect is stronger for …

findings for immigration and economic development policy. …

immigrants. Using industry and immigration data by metropolitan area, the authors examine the impact of immigration on industry … employment change during the 1990 decade. Results show that cities that attracted immigrants experienced slower declines in … computer employment than they would have in the absence of immigration. …

in computer employment than did cities without immigration. This article continues this exploration of the role that … metropolitan areas. Asian immigration had no impact on these three industries, and neither Hispanic nor Asian immigrants affected …In a previous study, Howland and Nguyen showed that cities that attracted Asian immigrants experienced slower declines …

of benefit programs are structured so that additional earnings from living wages largely disappear through benefit …