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Title A measure of fairness : the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States / Robert Pollin [and others]
Published Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages)
Contents The economic logic and moral imperative of living wages -- Debating living wage laws : Paul Krugman versus Robert Pollin -- A $6.15 minimum wage for New Orleans : what it would have meant for businesses -- The Santa Fe citywide living wage measure : the impact on business of the $8.50 standard -- Spending injections from the Arizona minimum wage increase : how businesses benefit -- What is a living wage? : considerations for Santa Monica, California -- How Santa Monica workers would have benefited from a $10.75 living wage -- How workers and their families will benefit from the Arizona minimum wage increase -- Living wage laws in practice : retrospective studies on Boston, Hartford, and New Haven -- Mandated wage floors and the wage structure : new estimates of the ripple effects of minimum wage laws -- Employment effects of higher minimum wages : a state-by-state comparative analysis -- Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's living wage ordinance and the labor market" -- Detecting the effects of living wage laws : a comment on Neumark and Adams
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Minimum wage -- United States
Living wage movement -- United States
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Living wage movement
Minimum wage
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Pollin, Robert
ISBN 9781501729522
1501729527