Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2002
Abstract
This study is one of the very few large-scale empirical investigations of the effect of wages on labor market outcomes in any direct care industry, and possibly the only such study specifically addressing conditions in the homecare industry. It records the impact of the nearly doubling of wages for IHSS homecare workers in San Francisco County over a 52 month period. The project is based on a unique database, which matches approximately 18,000 San Francisco County homecare workers in 26,115 unique matches to 15,500 service recipients between November 1997 and February 2002.
Recommended Citation
Howes, Candace, "The Impact of a large wage increase on the workforce stability of IHSS Home Care Workers in San Francisco County" (2002). Economics Faculty Publications. 2.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/econfacpub/2
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Initially published by the Institute for Research Labor and Employment
© 2004 UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, California
Full text available at: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/homecare/Howes.pdf