کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971064 1479561 2008 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Characteristics of cities that pass living wage ordinances: Are certain conditions more conducive than others?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Characteristics of cities that pass living wage ordinances: Are certain conditions more conducive than others?
چکیده انگلیسی

Cities that have passed living wage ordinances often do so because of the strong political appeal of local living wage campaigns as a response to the declining value of the minimum wage, the outsourcing of municipal services, and rising income inequality. These campaigns generally consist of coalitions of community organizations, religious groups, and often times labor organizations. Organized labor is not the primary force behind most living wage campaigns, but they are an important constituency. Unexplored, however, are the labor market and other characteristics of those cities that have passed ordinances. This paper looks at data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and compares cities that passed living wage ordinances to those that did not. Cities in states with high union density, and with higher levels of income inequality and larger immigrant populations appear to be more likely to pass living wage ordinances than those cities that do not have these demographics. But as important as union support may be, without key demographic and economic characteristics, it is nonetheless insufficient to achieve living wage ordinances in most cases.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The Journal of Socio-Economics - Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2008, Pages 2201–2213
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