Adams, Scott; Neumark, David - In: Economic Development Quarterly 19 (2005) 1, pp. 80-102
This article explores the effects of living wages on low-wage workers and low-income families. First, earlier analyses … confirms earlier findings that business-assistance living wage laws boost wages of the lowest wage workers at the cost of some … poverty threshold. It was not found that living wage laws increase the depth of poverty among families that remain poor; on …