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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 …
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Minimum wages in Kenya
Andalón, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2008
as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage … points and an increase of between 2.7-5.9 points in the share of self-employment. …
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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...
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