When Mandates Work

Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley. His current research focuses on dynamic models of low-wage labor markets and on the economics of living wages and minimum wages. Among his recent co-edited titles are Labor in the Era of Globalization (Cambridge U.P., 2009) and Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century (Cambridge U.P., 2010). Ken Jacobs is Chair of the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of specialization include health care coverage, the California budget, low-wage work, the retail industry, and public policy. He provided consultation to the City and County of San Francisco on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance and was a member of the Mayor's Universal Health Care Council. Miranda Dietz is a researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education working on employment and health care issues in California. She has written on temporary and subcontracted work in California as well as the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from UC Berkeley and Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Harvard.

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1. When Do Mandates Work?
Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich

Part I The Pay Mandates
2. Labor Market Impacts of San Francisco’s Minimum Wage
Arindrajit Dube, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Reich
3. Liftoff: Raising Wages at San Francisco Airport
Peter Hall, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
4. Living Wage and Home Care Workers
Candace Howes

Part II The Benefit Mandates
5. Health Spending Requirements in San Francisco
Carrie Colla, William Dow, and Arindrajit Dube
6. Requiring Equal Benefits for Domestic Partners
Christy Mallory and Brad Sears
7. Universal Paid Sick Leave
Vicky Lovell

Part III Making the Mandates Work
8. Enforcement of Labor Standards
Miranda Dietz, Donna Levitt, and Ellen Love
9. Labor Policy and Local Economic Development
Miriam J. Wells
10. Community Benefit Agreements and Economic Development at Hunters Point Shipyard
Ken Jacobs

Afterword
Miranda Dietz, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Reich
Contributors
Index