Submitted by Cry Wolf Project on February 15, 2006 - 5:17pm
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Wed, 02/15/2006
Jeff Chapman and Jeff Thompson. Economic Policy Institute. February 15, 2006.
“The economic impact of local living wages” is a survey of living wage studies. Chapman and Thompson show that the cost of living wage laws is “consistently overestimated”, actual costs were usually about one-tenth of one percent of a city’s overall budget.
Most affected workers are adults, who are employed full time. An LA study shows that a mere 1 percent of potentially affected workers suffered job losses. Multiple studies show that firms with living wage policies enjoy lower levels of turnover.
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