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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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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013

compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we … to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive … impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary …

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Bandwidth selection and the estimation of treatment effects with unbalanced data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Black, Dan - 2007

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and...

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