A Measure of Fairness : : The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States /

A Measure of Fairness : : The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States / / Stephanie Luce, Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Mark Brenner.

In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Pollin, Robert,
Brenner, Mark,
Luce, Stephanie,
MitwirkendeR:
Pollin, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 59 tables, 7 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • PART 1: What Are the Questions?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Economic Logic and Moral Imperative of Living Wages
  • 3. Debating Living Wage Laws: Paul Krugman versus Robert Pollin
  • PART 2: Impacts on Business
  • Introduction
  • 4. A $6.15 Minimum Wage for New Orleans: What It Would Have Meant for Businesses
  • 5. The Santa Fe Citywide Living Wage Measure: The Impact on Business of the $8.50 Standard
  • 6. Spending Injections from the Arizona Minimum Wage Increase: How Businesses Benefit
  • PART 3: Benefits to Workers and Families
  • Introduction
  • 7. What Is a Living Wage? Considerations for Santa Monica, California
  • 8. How Santa Monica Workers Would Have Benefited from a $10.75 Living Wage
  • 9. How Workers and Their Families Will Benefit from the Arizona Minimum Wage Increase
  • PART 4: Retrospective Analysis
  • Introduction
  • 10. Living Wage Laws in Practice: Retrospective Studies on Boston, Hartford, and New Haven
  • PART 5: Technical Studies and Debates
  • Introduction
  • 11. Mandated Wage Floors and the Wage Structure: New Estimates of the Ripple Effects of Minimum Wage Laws
  • 12. Employment Effects of Higher Minimum Wages: A State-by-State Comparative Analysis
  • 13. Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's Living Wage Ordinance and the Labor Market"
  • 14. Detecting the Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Comment on Neumark and Adams
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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