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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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2 results foundAuthor: Lalani, Mumtaz Title: Forced Labour in the UK: The Business Angle Summary: This paper: • examines the business structures, processes and pressures that may drive or facilitate the use of forced labour in the UK; • considers policies that may be used in response to these; • makes recommendations to the business community, government and trade unions and migrant community organisations to help reduce exploitation and forced labour in the UK. Details: York, UK: Joseph Rountree Foundation, 2012. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: JRF Programme Paper: Accessed April 27, 2012 at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/forced-labour-and-business-full.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/forced-labour-and-business-full.pdf Shelf Number: 125074 Keywords: Business PracticesEmployment PracticesForced Labor (U.K.)ImmigrantsLabor Exploitation |
Author: Fone, Zachary S. Title: Do Minimum Wage Increases Reduce Crime? Summary: An April 2016 Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) report advocated raising the minimum wage to deter crime. This recommendation rests on the assumption that minimum wage hikes increase the returns to legitimate labor market work while generating minimal adverse employment effects. This study comprehensively assesses the impact of minimum wages on crime using data from the 1998-2016 Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY). Our results provide no evidence that minimum wage increases reduce crime. Instead, we find that raising the minimum wage increases property crime arrests among those ages 16-to-24, with an estimated elasticity of 0.2. This result is strongest in counties with over 100,000 residents and persists when we use longitudinal data to isolate workers for whom minimum wages bind. Our estimates suggest that a $15 Federal minimum wage could generate criminal externality costs of nearly $2.4 billion. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019. 80p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper 25647: Accessed March 20, 2019 at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25647.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25647.pdf Shelf Number: 155063 Keywords: Employment PracticesMinimum Wage Property Crime Socioeconomic Conditions and Crime |