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The sleek corporate offices of one of Amazon's air freight contractors looms over Villaspring of Erlanger, a stately nursing home perched on a hillside in this Cincinnati suburb. ....
Minimum wages set by Amazon and several national retailers are pushing pay higher in cities where the companies operate, according to a new study by three economics and social science ....
This is good news for Amazon’s workers. But employees at other firms have reason to cheer, too. A recent paper by Ellora Derenoncourt of the University of California, Berkeley, and Clemens Noelke and David Weil of Brandeis University finds that when big American firms increase wages for their hourly workers, the change tends to spill over to other local employers. Using a database of online job adverts from Burning Glass Technologies, a labour-market analytics firm, and surveys from Glassdoor, an employer-review website, Derenoncourt and her colleagues found that when Amazon raised its minimum wage to US$15 in October 2018, an increase of roughly 20 per cent, nearby employers increased their advertised hourly wages by 4.7 per cent, on average. ....