the poverty levels of black and Hispanic women would be different if they were paid the same wages as white women with the … Hispanic women in the US. The first part examines 1990 and 2002, two years with very similar national unemployment levels, and … same characteristics. The results show that for the working poor black women the difference in poverty rates would be small …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age …