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Earnings and Employment: The Effects of the Living Wage Ordinance in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Nicholas Potter

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

8-23-2006

Publisher

University of New Mexico, Bureau of Business and Economic Research

Abstract

In this analysis, individual employees quarterly wage earnings records were used to examine both how quarterly earnings and the number of people employed by Santa Fe businesses with 25 or more employees change in response to the living wage ordinance. Using the difference-in-differences analysis, the results showed that overall quarterly earnings levels have increased after the living wage ordinance. Except for the construction sector, both employment and employee earnings have shown stronger growth for large Santa Fe businesses than for small Santa Fe businesses or large Albuquerque businesses.

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