wages, part-time work and employee churn undercut workers’ ability to pay their rent.Hungry Cooks presents findings showing … in the City of Los Angeles.Most frontline fast food workers are precariously housed because of low wages and part …-time hours. There is no floor to prevent their fall into homelessness. The 5.9 percent share of California’s homeless residents …

This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …

-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …