Does the Living Wage ensure an adequate standard of living for families?

The Standard of Living

The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns

The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns 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 l...

How Living Wage Laws Affect Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Neumark, David. How living wage laws affect low-wage workers and low-income families / David Neumark. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. Research publications reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers, or Board of Directors of the Public Policy Institute of California. Short sectio...

Health and Loneliness Status of the Elderly Living in Nursing Homes Versus Those Living with Their Families

Objectives: As attention of the elderly is progressing rapidly in developing countries in recent years, special attention to their mental and physical needs are necessary. The aim of this study was to comparing general health and loneliness between two groups of the elderly, one who live with their families versus those who live in nursing homes in north part of Tehran, Iran. Methods & Mater...

‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife We examine how group-specific differences in reservation wage, arising due to asymmetries in social entitlements, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict among workers. We model a twodimensional contest, where two unions, representing different sections of workers, j...