Do living wage laws work?
Do living wage laws work?
- November 4, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor’s Professor, is featured by jstor Nov. 4, 2014
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From jstor:
In a 2003 paper in The Journal of Human Resources, economists David Neumark [professor
of economics at UCI] and Scott Adams looked for the effects of the laws on various
economic outcomes. … Their data shows that living wage laws have “positive and significant”
effects on pay for low-wage workers, but they do moderately reducing the employment
rates of low-skilled workers.
For the full story, please visit http://daily.jstor.org/living-wage-laws-work/.
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