[PDF] The Economics Of Prevailing Wage Laws eBook

Author : Peter Philips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1351891057

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Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. These laws require that construction workers employed by contractors on government works be paid at least the wage rates and fringe benefits 'prevailing' for similar work where government contract work is performed. The federal law (Davis-Bacon Act) was passed in 1931. By 1969 four fifth of States had enacted prevailing wage legislation. In the 1970s, facing fiscal crises, States considered repealing their laws in an effort to reduce construction costs, and since 1979 nine States have repealed their laws. These repeals at State level along with unsuccessful attempts to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act have pushed prevailing wages to the forefront of public policy and controversy. This book, for the first time, brings together scholarly research in the economics of prevailing wages placed in historical and institutional context.

Author : Hamid Azari-Rad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
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Prevailing wage laws affecting the construction industry in the United States exist at the Federal and State levels. This book, for the first time, brings together scholarly research in the economics of prevailing wages placed in historical and institutional context.

Author : John P. Gould
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Law
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Wages and fringe benefits, labour legislation commentary, economic analysis, Davis-Bacon Act, USA.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 1971
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USA. Paper comprising a literature survey of research commenting on the economic implications and social implications of the davis-bacon labour legislation relating to wage determination in the construction industry - includes references and statistical tables.

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501729527

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In early 2007, there were approximately 140 living wage ordinances in place throughout the United States. Communities around the country frequently debate new proposals of this sort. Additionally, as a result of ballot initiatives, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 70 percent of the total U.S. population, maintain minimum wage standards above those set by the federal minimum wage.In A Measure of Fairness, Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce assess how well living wage and minimum wage regulations in the United States serve the workers they are intended to help. Opponents of such measures assert that when faced with mandated increases in labor costs, businesses will either lay off workers, hire fewer low-wage employees in the future, replace low-credentialed workers with those having better qualifications or, finally, even relocate to avoid facing the increased costs being imposed on them.The authors give an overview of living wage and minimum wage implementation in Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to show how these policies play out in the paychecks of workers, in the halls of legislature, and in business ledgers. Based on a decade of research, this volume concludes that living wage laws and minimum wage increases have been effective policy interventions capable of bringing significant, if modest, benefits to the people they were intended to help.