TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Neumark, David
AU  - Thompson, Matthew
AU  - Koyle, Leslie
        TI  - The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
        PY  - 2012/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7114
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7114
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - poverty
KW  - employment
KW  - wages
KW  - living wage
        ER  -