Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3575389 |
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| Authors | Daniel P Kessler (0000-0003-0344-0418, National Bureau of Economic Research), Lawrence F Katz (National Bureau of Economic Research) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2696010 |
| OpenAlex | W2890385728 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Prevailing wage laws, which require that construction workers employed by private contractors on public projects be paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate.We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline slightly after the repeal of a state prevailing wage law.However, the small overall impact of law repeal masks substantial differences in outcomes for different groups of construction employees.Repeal is associated with a sizeable reduction in the union wage premium and a significant narrowing of the black/nonblack wage differential for construction workers
Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Repeal · Wage · Work (physics) · Engineering · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Public Procurement and Policy · Public-Private Partnership Projects
| Highly cited | No |
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