A measure of fairness
Subtitle: the economics of living wages and minimum wages in the United States
By: Robert Pollin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Pollin, Robert.
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801445583; 9780801473630
Subjects: Minimum wage -- United States; Living wage movement -- United States
Notes: "ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: The economic logic and moral imperative of living wages; title: Debating living wage laws : Paul Krugman versus Robert Pollin; title: A $6.15 minimum wage for New Orleans : what it would have meant for businesses; title: The Santa Fe citywide living wage measure : the impact on business of the $8.50 standard; title: Spending injections from the Arizona minimum wage increase : how businesses benefit; title: What is a living wage? : considerations for Santa Monica, California; title: How Santa Monica workers would have benefited from a $10.75 living wage; title: How workers and their families will benefit from the Arizona minimum wage increase; title: Living wage laws in practice : retrospective studies on Boston, Hartford, and New Haven; title: Mandated wage floors and the wage structure : new estimates of the ripple effects of minimum wage laws; title: Employment effects of higher minimum wages : a state-by-state comparative analysis; title: Comments on Aaron Yelowitz, "Santa Fe's living wage ordinance and the labor market"; title: Detecting the effects of living wage laws : a comment on Neumark and Adams.