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Atlanta-Specific Reports
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Atlanta Living Wage Coalition March 2003 “Making A Case for the Atlanta Living Wage” |
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2003 Comparison of Cost of Living Indices and Living Wage Levels for Atlanta vs. Selected Cities (Hotchkiss) |
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Dr. Robert Pollin (Co-Director PERI and Professor, UMass-Amherst) May 2003 Atlanta City Council Testimony on Proposed Living Wage Ordinance for Atlanta, GA |
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General Living Wage Issue Overview Reports
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ACORN 2002 National Guide To Organizing a Living Wage Campaign (Reynolds, Kern) |
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Employment Policies Institute 2000 “Living Wage Policy – The Basics” |
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Economic Policy Institute October 2003 “The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What Is Known About Its Impact?” (Bernstein) |
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Employment Policies Institute January 2003 “Living Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit – A Comparative Analysis” (Turner, Barnow) |
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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper May 2003 “Living Wage Effects – New and Improved Evidence” (Adams, Neumark) |
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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper March 2000 “Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?” (Neumark, Adams) |
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Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst 2002 “Measuring the Impact of Living Wage Laws – A Critical Appraisal of David Neumark’s How Living Wage Laws Affect Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families” (Brenner, Wicks-Lim, Pollin) |
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Employment Policies Institute June 2001 “The Case for a Targeted Living Wage Subsidy” (Toikka) |
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Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst 2003 “Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States: Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?” (Pollin) |
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Policy Analysis October 2003 “Keeping The Poor Poor – The Dark Side of the Living Wage” (Horowitz) |
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Employment Policies Institute August 2000 “The Living Wage: Survey of Labor Economists” (Smith) |
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Employment Policies Institute 2000 “Rising Above The Minimum Wage” (Even, Macpherson) |
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Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center 2002 “Summary of Major Living Wage Studies Through 2002” |
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Brennan Center for Justice Economic Justice Project November 2003 “Living Wage Laws & Communities: Smarter Economic Development, Lower Than Expected Costs” (Elmore) |
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Jacksonville City Council Research Division August 2002 “The Value and Impact of Living Wage Legislation: A Review of Research Literature on Living Wage Legislation” (Weiss, Clements) |
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University of South Florida Center for Economic Development Research December 2003 “Summary of Selected Post-Enactment Living Wage Studies” (Anderson, Colie, Sobush) |
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Economic Policy Institute 2001 Issue Guide Living Wage |
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Public Policy Institute of California “Living Wages: Lessons from the United States” (Neumark) |
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Fiscal Policy Institute 2002 “An Overview of Living Wage Ordinances” (Renwick) |
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Challenge September 2001 “Time for a Living Wage” (Pollin) |
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City-Specific Reports
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Employment Policies Institute July 1999 “Economic Analysis of a Living Wage Ordinance” (Chicago ordinance) (Tolley, Bernstein, Lesage) |
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Chicago Jobs & Living Wage Campaign September 2002 “A Self-Sufficiency Living Wage for Chicago” (Baiman, Persky, Nolan) |
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Economic Policy Institute 1996/Revised February 1999 “The Effects of the Living Wage in Baltimore” (Niedt, Ruiters, Wise, Schoenberger) |
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Employment Policies Institute October 1998 “The Baltimore Living Wage Study: Omissions, Fabrications, and Flaws” |
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Employment Policies Institute June 2002 “The Employment Impact of a Comprehensive Living Wage Law – Evidence from Florida” (Macpherson) |
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Economic Policy Institute/Wayne State Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center June 2000 “Impact of Detroit’s Living Wage Law on Non-Profit Organizations” (Reynolds, Vortkamp) |
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Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center September 1999 “The Impact of the Detroit Living Wage Ordinance” (Reynolds, Pearson, Vortkamp) |
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Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst April 2002 “Intended vs. Unintended Consequences: Evaluating the New Orleans Living Wage Proposal” (Pollin, Brenner, Luce) |
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Bay Area Living Wage Research Group/ Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley June 1999 “Living Wages and the San Francisco Economy: The Benefits and The Costs” (Reich, Hall, Hsu) |
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Bay Area Living Wage Research Group/ Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley October 1999 “Living Wages at the Airport and Port of San Francisco: The Benefits and The Costs” (Reich, Hall, Hsu) |
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Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley May 2003 “Raising Low Pay in a High Income Economy: The Economics of a San Francisco Minimum Wage” |
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Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley 2003 “Living Wage Policies at San Francisco Airport: Impact on Workers and Businesses” (Reich, Hall, Jacobs) |
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Miscellaneous Relevant Reports for Living Wage Issue
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US Dept of Labor 2002 Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers |
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Monthly Labor Review November/December 2003 “The Working Poor in 2001” (Mosisa) |
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Equal Benefits Ordinance Relevant Reports
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Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies 2000 “Contracts with Equality: An Evaluation of the San Francisco Equal Benefits Ordinance (Rogers, Dunham) |
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San Francisco Human Rights Commission 2002 “Five Year Report on the San Francisco Equal Benefits Ordinance” (Goldstein) |