The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?

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We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding systems in the mid-2000s. The updated evidence is broadly consistent with the conclusions reached by prior research, including Holzer's (2008) review of that earlier evidence. Living wage laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them. This implies that living wage laws generate both winners and losers among those affected by them. For broader living wage laws that cover recipients of business or financial assistance from cities, the net effects point to modest reductions in urban poverty.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7114

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
• Thema: living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty ; Mindestlohn ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Niedriglohn ; Niedrigeinkommen ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Armut ; USA

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Neumark, David ; Thompson, Matthew ; Koyle, Leslie
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69323
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ