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Please note that these reports are originally posted on the websites of the appropriate organizations or authors.  No reproduction or distribution of these documents should occur without the consent of the authors.  These documents have been compiled here.


As with any research, one must be aware that most of these reports are “biased” to some degree based on the author or organization involved – in most cases the authors have consistently favored or opposed the concept of a living wage ordinance.  These are only general statements and each report should be evaluated carefully by the reader on its own merits.

 

Atlanta-Specific Reports

View Atlanta Living Wage Coalition March 2003 “Making A Case for the Atlanta Living Wage” 
View 2003 Comparison of Cost of Living Indices and Living Wage Levels for Atlanta vs. Selected Cities (Hotchkiss)
View Dr. Robert Pollin (Co-Director PERI and Professor, UMass-Amherst) May 2003 Atlanta City Council Testimony on Proposed Living Wage Ordinance for Atlanta, GA
General Living Wage Issue Overview Reports
View ACORN 2002 National Guide To Organizing a Living Wage Campaign (Reynolds, Kern)
View Employment Policies Institute 2000 “Living Wage Policy – The Basics”
View Economic Policy Institute October 2003 “The Living Wage Movement: What Is It, Why Is It, and What Is Known About Its Impact?”  (Bernstein)
View Employment Policies Institute January 2003 “Living Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit – A Comparative Analysis”  (Turner, Barnow)
View National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper May 2003 “Living Wage Effects – New and Improved Evidence”  (Adams, Neumark)
View National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper March 2000 “Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?”  (Neumark, Adams)
View Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst 2002 “Measuring the Impact of Living Wage Laws – A Critical Appraisal of David Neumark’s How Living Wage Laws Affect Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families” (Brenner, Wicks-Lim, Pollin)
View Employment Policies Institute June 2001 “The Case for a Targeted Living Wage Subsidy”  (Toikka)
View Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst  2003  “Evaluating Living Wage Laws in the United States:  Good Intentions and Economic Reality in Conflict?”  (Pollin)
View Policy Analysis October 2003 “Keeping The Poor Poor – The Dark Side of the Living Wage”  (Horowitz)
View Employment Policies Institute August 2000 “The Living Wage: Survey of Labor Economists” (Smith)
View Employment Policies Institute 2000 “Rising Above The Minimum Wage” (Even, Macpherson)
View Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center  2002  “Summary of Major Living Wage Studies Through 2002”
View Brennan Center for Justice Economic Justice Project November 2003 “Living Wage Laws & Communities:  Smarter Economic Development, Lower Than Expected Costs” (Elmore)
View Jacksonville City Council Research Division August 2002 “The Value and Impact of Living Wage Legislation:  A Review of Research Literature on Living Wage Legislation”  (Weiss, Clements)
View University of South Florida Center for Economic Development Research  December 2003 “Summary of Selected Post-Enactment Living Wage Studies”  (Anderson, Colie, Sobush)
View Economic Policy Institute 2001 Issue Guide Living Wage
View Public Policy Institute of California “Living Wages: Lessons from the United States” (Neumark)
View Fiscal Policy Institute 2002 “An Overview of Living Wage Ordinances” (Renwick)
View Challenge September 2001 “Time for a Living Wage” (Pollin)
City-Specific Reports
View Employment Policies Institute July 1999 “Economic Analysis of a Living Wage Ordinance” (Chicago ordinance)  (Tolley, Bernstein, Lesage)
View Chicago Jobs & Living Wage Campaign September 2002 “A Self-Sufficiency Living Wage for Chicago”  (Baiman, Persky, Nolan)
View Economic Policy Institute  1996/Revised February 1999 “The Effects of the Living Wage in Baltimore”  (Niedt, Ruiters, Wise, Schoenberger)
View Employment Policies Institute October 1998 “The Baltimore Living Wage Study: Omissions, Fabrications, and Flaws”
View Employment Policies Institute June 2002 “The Employment Impact of a Comprehensive Living Wage Law – Evidence from Florida”  (Macpherson)
View Economic Policy Institute/Wayne State Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center June 2000 “Impact of Detroit’s Living Wage Law on Non-Profit Organizations”  (Reynolds, Vortkamp)
View Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies & Labor Studies Center September 1999 “The Impact of the Detroit Living Wage Ordinance”  (Reynolds, Pearson, Vortkamp)
View Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst April 2002 “Intended vs. Unintended Consequences:  Evaluating the New Orleans Living Wage Proposal”  (Pollin, Brenner, Luce)
View Bay Area Living Wage Research Group/ Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley June 1999 “Living Wages and the San Francisco Economy:  The Benefits and The Costs”  (Reich, Hall, Hsu)
View Bay Area Living Wage Research Group/ Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley October 1999  “Living Wages at the Airport and Port of San Francisco:  The Benefits and The Costs”  (Reich, Hall, Hsu)
View Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley  May 2003  “Raising Low Pay in a High Income Economy: The Economics of a San Francisco Minimum Wage”
View Institute of Industrial Relations at Univ. California Berkeley 2003 “Living Wage Policies at San Francisco Airport:  Impact on Workers and Businesses”  (Reich, Hall, Jacobs)
Miscellaneous Relevant Reports for Living Wage Issue
View US Dept of Labor 2002 Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers
View Monthly Labor Review November/December 2003  “The Working Poor in 2001” (Mosisa)
Equal Benefits Ordinance Relevant Reports
View Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies 2000 “Contracts with Equality: An Evaluation of the San Francisco Equal Benefits Ordinance  (Rogers, Dunham)
View San Francisco Human Rights Commission 2002 “Five Year Report on the San Francisco Equal Benefits Ordinance” (Goldstein)