The dissipation of minimum wage gains for workers through labor-labor substitution: Evidence from the Los Angeles living wage ordinance

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 473-496

  Fairris, David ^a   Bujanda, Leon Fernandez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

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