A measure of fairness : the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States /
Robert Pollin ... [et al.].
- Ithaca : ILR Press, 2008.
- xiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"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.