@techreport{Adams2005effects,
abstract = {Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities without a law, and also permit the separate estimation of the effects of living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar laws in nearby cities.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Scott Adams and David Neumark},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J28; J38; 330; living wages; wages; employment; Mindestlohn; Niedrigeinkommen; St\"{a}dtischer Arbeitsmarkt; Wirkungsanalyse; USA},
language = {eng},
number = {1566},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The effects of living wage laws: evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33390},
year = {2005}
}
