Journal article
Which U.S. Cities Adopt Living Wage Ordinances? Predictors of Adoption of a New Labor Tactic, 1994-2006
Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Vol.47(6), pp.743-774
11/2011
DOI: 10.1177/1078087411412733
Abstract
This article investigates predictors of living wage ordinance adoption in U.S. cities. The authors build on previous research by including all cities with more than 25,000 people (1,072 cities), adding new variables to measure favorable political context, use of event history analysis (Cox regression) to analyze temporal effects in diffusion, and distinguishing between predictors of early and late adoption. General political context, city size, and municipal expenditures were significant predictors, while grievances, presence of a local ACORN chapter, union density, and form of city government were not significant. Density of nonlabor progressive associations and history of progressive activism were major predictors of policy adoption.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Which U.S. Cities Adopt Living Wage Ordinances? Predictors of Adoption of a New Labor Tactic, 1994-2006
- Creators
- Heidi Swarts - Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyIon Bogdan Vasi - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Vol.47(6), pp.743-774
- DOI
- 10.1177/1078087411412733
- ISSN
- 1078-0874
- eISSN
- 1552-8332
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2011
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Management and Entrepreneurship ; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984306244602771
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