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A measure of fairness : the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States / Robert Pollin ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Publication details: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.Description: xiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801445583 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801445582 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780801473630 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0801473632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.2/30973 22
LOC classification:
  • HD4918 .M57 2008
Online resources:
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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD4918 .M57 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001014835

"ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index.

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.

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