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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - 2012
laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291309
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269364
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Spatial Influences on the Employment of U.S. Hispanics : Spatial Mismatch, Discrimination, or Immigrant Networks?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009
Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205823
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data: Evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - 2012
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291346
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The effects of living wage laws: evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns
Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267480
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The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763655
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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785486
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects … are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and … diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial longer-run effects could arise if minimum wages increase skill acquisition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276027
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Neighbors and Co-Workers : The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2009
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205824
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Do Labor Market Networks Have an Important Spatial Dimension?
Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2013
We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161665