%0 Report
        %A Adams, Scott
%A Neumark, David
        %T The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
        %D 2005
        %8 2005 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1566
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1566
        %X 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.
        %K wages
%K living wages
%K employment