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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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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 effect of minimum wages on wages and employment: county-level estimates for the United States
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - 2008
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum … given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant …-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268558
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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011
handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282395