@techreport{NBERw11342,
 title = "The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns",
 author = "Scott Adams and David Neumark",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "11342",
 year = "2005",
 month = "May",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w11342",
 abstract = {Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities without a law, and also permit the separate estimation of the effects of living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar laws in nearby cities.},
}