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Prevailing Wage is Poor Economic Policy

Senate Committee on Labor

… for three reasons. Prevailing wage mandates make for poor economic … extends the idea of prevailing wage laws to solar and wind projects … that conventional prevailing wage laws force Michigan taxpayers … 2004 through 2019, prevailing wage laws raised the cost of quality-adjusted … effectively mandating higher minimum wages on a particular industry …

Campaign finance violation puts Nessel, Benson on opposite sides

Nessel has advocated for a group Benson referred to Nessel for criminal prosecution

… backing a campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Michigan puts Attorney … Democrats, at odds. When One Fair Wage Action made its 2022 endorsements … nonprofit to push for a $15 minimum wage in Michigan, and even advocated … raised concerns about One Fair Wage’s campaign spending. On Aug. … initiative to raise the minimum wage in Michigan to $15 per …

Endnotes

… Perspectives 31, no. 1, 2017): 205-230. 13 Otto Lenhart, “The effects of minimum wages on teenage birth rates” (Economics Letters 198, 2021): 109670. 14 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Jean Kimmel, “The motherhood wage gap for women in the United States: The importance of college and fertility …

Note to Michigan’s population council: Research favors freedom

Ranking of states shows we need to change direction

… freedom with respect to labor decisions in the form of less restrictive minimum wages, less concentration of unions, and less dependence on public employment,” … repealed its right-to-work law and reinstituted its expensive prevailing wage law. Both of these restrict labor market freedom, and the effects are likely …

Section 4: MCL § 15.234 – Fee; limitation on total fee; labor costs, etc.

… charge more than the hourly wage of its lowest-paid employee … charge more than the hourly wage of its lowest-paid employee … equal to 6 times the state minimum hourly wage rate determined under section … improved workforce opportunity wage act, 2018 PA 337, MCL 408.934, …

Note to Michigan’s population council: Research favors freedom

Ranking of states shows we need to change direction

… freedom with respect to labor decisions in the form of less restrictive minimum wages, less concentration of unions, and less dependence on public employment,” … repealed its right-to-work law and reinstituted its expensive prevailing wage law. Both of these restrict labor market freedom, and the effects are likely …

Minimum wage does maximum damage

Hiking Michigan’ government-mandated wage is bad for customers, businesses and most workers

… n’s government-mandated minimum wage could soon rise by 30%, … with tips. A hike in the minimum wage doesn’t mean the end of … from economists is that minimum wage hikes are bad for workers … Minnesota increased its minimum wage by almost 30% from 2017 … looked at worker schedules and wage data from similar stores in …

Benton Harbor pension system only 39% funded

State law requires 60% funding; Benton Harbor has been on a corrective action plan for years

… Act 202 requires local government pension plans to be 60% funded, at a minimum, meaning they can be expected to pay out at least 60% of the amounts they … their managers use overly optimistic assumptions about investment returns, wage growth and other factors. Using better assumptions protects a plan’s long-term …

Model and Data

… state-level variation in prevailing wage legislation plays on key cost … presence of a state prevailing wage law. We pursue two parallel … identification of the prevailing wage effect on road cost and labor … timing of changes to prevailing wage laws are exogenous due to unexpected … prevailing wage when its minimum threshold for a project is …

Introduction

… effect of state-level prevailing wage legislation on the costs and … each year. State prevailing wage laws mandate that a minimum wage be paid to workers on public construction projects. This prevailing wage is set by a survey of wages … Today, 29 states have prevailing wage laws, eight of which have no …