used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

We estimate the effects of living wage laws on wages of low-wage workers, focusing on the timing of policy, spurious … effects of living wage laws and find evidence consistent with tradeoffs between wages and employment …