A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States

Contents\nTables and Figures\nPreface\nPART 1: What Are the Questions?\n1. Introduction\n2. The Economic Logic and Moral Imperative of Living Wages\n3. Debating Living Wage Laws: Paul Krugman versus Robert Pollin\nPART 2: Impacts on Business\nIntroduction\n4. A $6.15 Minimum Wage for New Orleans: What It Would Have Meant for Businesses\n5. The Santa Fe Citywide Living Wage Measure: The Impact on Business of the $8.50 Standard\n6. Spending Injections from the Arizona Minimum Wage Increase: How Businesses Benefit\nPART 3: Benefits to Workers and Families\nIntroduction\n7. What Is a Living Wage? Considerations for Santa Monica, California\n8. How Santa Monica Workers Would Have Benefited from a $10.75 Living Wage\n9. How Workers and Their Families Will Benefit from the Arizona Minimum Wage Increase\nPART 4: Retrospective Analysis\nIntroduction\n10. Living Wage Laws in Practice: Retrospective Studies on Boston, Hartford, and New Haven\nPART 5: Technical Studies and Debates\nIntroduction\n11. Mandated Wage Floors and the Wage Structure: New Estimates of the Ripple Effects of Minimum Wage Laws\n12. Employment Effects of Higher Minimum Wages: A State-by-State Comparative Analysis\n13. Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, \"Santa Fe\'s Living Wage Ordinance and the Labor Market\"\n14. Detecting the Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Comment on Neumark and Adams\nNotes\nReferences\nAcknowledgments\nIndex\nAbout the Authors