Responding to an Increased Minimum Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Child Care Businesses during the Implementation of Seattle's Minimum Wage Ordinance

Responding to an Increased Minimum Wage: A Mixed Methods Study of Child Care Businesses during the Implementation of Seattle's Minimum Wage Ordinance

Low wages are a persistent feature of child care jobs and affect the quality of children’s care in the U.S. In this article, we examine how implementation of Seattle’s minimum wage law affected the local child care sector using three datasets: (1) state administrative records on approximately 200 Se...

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Main Authors: Jennifer J. Otten, Katherine Getts, Anne Althauser, James Buszkiewicz, Ekaterina Jardim, Heather D. Hill, Jennifer Romich, Scott W. Allard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Work & Society 2018-12-01
Series:Social Work and Society
Subjects:
child care
minimum wage
early childhood care and education
workforce
Online Access:https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/538

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