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The effects of living wage laws: evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns

Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - 2005

employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

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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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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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Minimum wages, the earned income tax credit, and employment: evidence from the post-welfare reform era

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - 2007

that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …

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Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity

Neumark, David - 2008

The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2008

This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...

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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment: Do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local … sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor stores is higher significantly in jurisdictions with higher sales tax … stores and shopping centers. We also find that the effect of local sales taxes on big box and anchor store retail employment …

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