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Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence for the first time, reviews it as a whole, and considers its lessons for local, state, and federal policymakers.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 344
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 January 2014
ISBN: 9780520957466
Format: eBook
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Glossary
1. When Do Mandates Work?
Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich
Part I The Pay Mandates
2. Labor Market Impacts of San Francisco’s Minimum Wage
Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich
3. Liftoff: Raising Wages at San Francisco Airport
Peter Hall, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
4. Living Wage and Home Care Workers
Candace Howes
Part II The Benefit Mandates
5. Health Spending Requirements in San Francisco
Carrie Colla, William Dow, and Arindrajit Dube
6. Requiring Equal Benefits for Domestic Partners
Christy Mallory and Brad Sears
7. Universal Paid Sick Leave
Vicky Lovell
Part III Making the Mandates Work
8. Enforcement of Labor Standards
Miranda Dietz, Donna Levitt, and Ellen Love
9. Labor Policy and Local Economic Development
Miriam J. Wells
10. Community Benefit Agreements and Economic Development at Hunters Point Shipyard
Ken Jacobs
Afterword
Miranda Dietz, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
Contributors
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Glossary
1. When Do Mandates Work?
Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich
Part I The Pay Mandates
2. Labor Market Impacts of San Francisco’s Minimum Wage
Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich
3. Liftoff: Raising Wages at San Francisco Airport
Peter Hall, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
4. Living Wage and Home Care Workers
Candace Howes
Part II The Benefit Mandates
5. Health Spending Requirements in San Francisco
Carrie Colla, William Dow, and Arindrajit Dube
6. Requiring Equal Benefits for Domestic Partners
Christy Mallory and Brad Sears
7. Universal Paid Sick Leave
Vicky Lovell
Part III Making the Mandates Work
8. Enforcement of Labor Standards
Miranda Dietz, Donna Levitt, and Ellen Love
9. Labor Policy and Local Economic Development
Miriam J. Wells
10. Community Benefit Agreements and Economic Development at Hunters Point Shipyard
Ken Jacobs
Afterword
Miranda Dietz, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
Contributors
Index