TY - BOOK AU - Pollin,Robert TI - A measure of fairness: the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States SN - 9780801445583 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - HD4918 .M57 2008 U1 - 331.2/30973 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Ithaca PB - ILR Press KW - Minimum wage KW - United States KW - Living wage movement N1 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007033006.html ER -