From: The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families: What do we know now?
Previous Estimates | Restricted to 79 MSAs/PMSAs in CMSAs | Restricted to 79 MSAs/PMSAs, corrected living wage laws | Same as columns (5) and (6), with city-specific trends | Larger sample of MSAs/PMSAs | |||||
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | |
Dependent variable: | Log wages | Employment | Log wages | Employment | Log wages | Employment | Log wages | Employment | Employment |
Specification 1 | |||||||||
Log living wage, lagged 12 months | 0.040 | −0.053** | 0.046* | −0.047** | 0.043* | −0.066** | 0.034 | −0.061** | −0.061** |
(0.030) | (0.020) | (0.024) | (0.019) | (0.026) | (0.020) | (0.031) | (0.019) | (0.019) | |
Specification 2 | |||||||||
Business assistance living wage laws: | |||||||||
Log living wage, lagged 12 months | 0.067* | −0.076** | 0.071** | −0.067** | 0.080** | −0.069** | 0.070* | −0.073** | −0.074** |
(0.039) | (0.018) | (0.028) | (0.020) | (0.030) | (0.020) | (0.037) | (0.021) | (0.021) | |
Contractor-only living wage laws: | |||||||||
Log living wage, lagged 12 months | −0.006 | −0.027 | 0.005 | −0.017 | −0.007 | −0.070** | −0.016 | −0.043 | −0.043 |
(0.037) | (0.033) | (0.035) | (0.031) | (0.028) | (0.035) | (0.040) | (0.032) | (0.032) | |
N | 46,374 | 116,466 | 44,588 | 90,695 | 44,588 | 90,695 | 44,588 | 90,695 | 92,091 |