Research and Publications - Fair Economy

Living Wage Laws & Communities: Smarter Economic Development, Lower Than Expected Costs

Andrew J. Elmore

Economic Justice Project
November 2003

Brennan Center for Justice
NYU School of Law

Living Wage Laws:
Expanding Nationwide
In one of the most pronounced local policy trends in recent years,
scores of cities and counties across the United States—more than

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Unions and Upward Mobility for Women Workers

John Schmitt
December 2008

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Executive Summary

In 2007, women made up 45 percent of union members. If the share of women in unions continues
to grow at the same rate as it has over the last 25 years, women will be the majority of the unionized
workforce by 2020.

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Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch between Blacks and Jobs

Cities, Labor Markets, U.S. Economy, Sprawl, Demographics
Michael Stoll, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution
Wednesday November 5, 2008

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Findings

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No Justice, No Growth: How Los Angeles is making big-time developers create decent jobs.

By Harold Meyerson

The American Prospect, October 22, 2006
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=no_justice_no_growth

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Unions and Upward Mobility for African-American Workers

John Schmitt
April 2008

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Executive Summary

This paper examines the impact of unionization on the pay and benefits of African-American
workers. The most recent data suggest that even after controlling for differences between union and
non-union workers —including such factors as age and education level— unionization substantially

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