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The Proposed Minimum Wage Law for Los Angeles: Economic Impacts and Policy Options
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluates the City of Los Angeles' proposed minimum wage increase to $13.75 by 2017 and $15.25 by 2019 followed by annual increases indexed to inflation. It evaluates the impact on workers, businesses, and the overall economy evaluating various policy design options....
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San Francisco Values: The New Social Compact
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2009
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Finance & Procurement
This paper evaluates the large number of progressive policies the city of San Francisco has enacted in the last decade. This includes increased labor protections, enhanced union rights, local earned income tax credits, and a universal health access program....
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The Impact of Oakland's Proposed City Minimum Wage Law: A Prospective Study
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluated the potential impact of the 2014 ballot measure to raise Oakland's minimum wage to $12.25. They found it would increase wages for 25% of the workforce. Costs would be managed through savings from reduced turnover, increase productivity, and small price increases...
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Driverless? Autonomous Trucks and the Future of the American Trucker
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility
This report evaluates the potential impact of automation in the trucking industry. It looks at the potential impact of driverless trucks in particular. It evaluates both employment impacts and potential policy solutions....
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Race to the Bottom: How Low-Road Subcontracting Affects Working Conditions in California's Property Service s Industry
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Finance & Procurement
This report evaluates the public cost of low wages in California's subcontracted services industries....
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Raising the Bar: The Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point Development Community Benefits Agreement
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2010
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Democracy & Governance
This report outlines the provisions of the community benefit agreement signed between the City of San Francisco, local unions, and community organizations with the developers of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point Development Project. The CBA includes union rights, living...
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Distribution of Workers Affected by a $15 Minimum Wage in California Across Counties by 2023
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This fact sheet outlines the number of workers who would see a raise under California's plan to raist the minimum wage to $15 an hour, broken out by county....
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Providing Health Care to Undocumented Residents: Program details and lessons learned from three California county health programs
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Finance & Procurement, Health, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
This report evaluates the impact of various California County programs which exteneded public healthcare to undocumented immigrants....
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The Link Between Good Jobs and a Low Carbon Future: Evidence from California's Renewables Portfolio Standard, 2002-2015
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
This report evaluates the impact and job quality of the green jobs created in the construction industry as a result of California's commitment in increasing the State's usage of renewable energy....
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What Do We Know About Gig Work in California? An Analysis of Independent Contracting
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report outlines the issues of gig work evaluating its implications for independent cotnracting and job quality....
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Enforcing City Minimum Wage Laws in California: Best Practices and City-State Partnerships
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
California has lead the nation in the development of local minimum wage ordinances. This reports how cities and counties have developed enforcement regimes for these new laws while also working within existing state enforcement systems....
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The Net Economic Impact of California's Major Climate Programs in the Inland Empire
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
This report provides a quantitative assessment of the economic impact in the Inland Empire counties of four import climate change policies in the state: cap and trade, the renewables portfolio standards, distributed solar programs, and investor-owned utility. They find these programs...
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San Francisco's Proposed City Minimum Wage Law: A Prospective Impact Study
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This study evaluates the impact of the proposed 2014 ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2018 in four steps. The study evaluates the number and demographics of workers impacted as well as the economic impact on workers and business. They find...
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Aging California's Retirement Crisis: State and Local Indicators
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town, County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Children & Families, Housing, Public Safety
This report evaluates California's looming retirement crisis. The study finds most California seniors are unprepared for retirement facing high costs of living and with low pension or 401K attainment....
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Estimated Impact of a Proposed Minimum Wage Law for Sacramento
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluates the prosal to establish a $13.50 an hour minimum wage by 2019 in the city of Sacramento in three steps. It evaluates the potential impacts on workers, employment, and businesses....
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Project Labor Agreements and Bidding Outcomes: The Case of Community College Construction in California
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement
This report using both case studies and statistical analysis of construction projects at local community colleges in California found that projects with Project Labor Agreements did not reduce the number of bids received or the costs of the projects....
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The High Public Cost of Low Wages
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Finance & Procurement
This report evaluates the public cost of law wages in all 50 states....
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The Impact of Wages and Turnover on Security and Safety in Airports: A Review of the Literature
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This literature review at the request of the San Francisco Airport Commission to aid in the evaluation of a proposal to increase wages for those covered under the airport's Quality Standards Program. The program mandated higher minimum compensation and training. The review finds higher...
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Diversity in California's Clean Energy Workforce: Access to Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers in Renewable Energy Construction
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2017
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy
This report evaluates the degree to which underrepresented and disadvantaged workers have gained access to career-track jobs in the construction of renewable energy power plants through California's energy programs....
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At the Wage Floor: Covering Homecare and Early Care and Education Workers in the New Generation of Minimum Wage Laws
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health, Education, Children & Families
This report provides a background about the shared and divergent challenges in the homecare and early care and education inustries; as well as review emerging policy initiatives to fund wage increases for homecare and early care and education workers and identify principles for public...
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Estimated Impact of a Proposed Minimum Wage Law for the North Bay
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluates proposals in various North Bay cities. It evaluates the potential impacts on workers, employment, and businesses....
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Local Minimum Wage Laws: Impacts on Workers, Families and Businesses
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluates local minimum wage laws across the country evaluating their structure, their enforcement, and their impact for both workers and businesses....
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Data and Methods for Estimating the Impact of Proposed Local Minimum Wage Laws
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level City or Town, County
State(s) All States
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This technical report outlines the date and methodology developed by the UC Berkeley Labor Center to estiamte the number of workers imapcted by proposed local minimum wages laws, as well as the expected increase in wages. This report outlines the challenges of dealing with data limitations...
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The Public Cost of Low-Wage Work in New England
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2016
Level City or Town, County
State(s) Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance
This report outline the cost in terms of public assistance the New England states must spend to subsidize low wage employment models....
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Contra Costa County's Proposed Minimum Wage Law: A Prospective Impact Study
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2015
Level County
State(s) California
Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Labor Research and Education
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report evaluates the proposal to raise Contra Costa County's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 in 5 steps. The study examines the impacts on workers and businesses....
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