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xi The idea for this book originated in a session of the Labor and Employment Research Association’s 2009 annual meetings. The session, “San Francisco and the New Social Compact,” was organized by David Weinberg and Michael Theriault. Their encouragement resulted in the conference paper and presentation that ultimately provided the outline for this volume. One of us, Michael Reich, had testified before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors several times a decade ago, reporting on his prospective impact studies on behalf of a number of alternative versions of the policies that we analyze here. During that same time, Ken Jacobs cochaired the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition. This policy engagement spurred both of us to subsequently conduct a series of stateof -the-art research studies evaluating those policies. The authors of each of the chapters in this volume not only contributed quality research. When we met as a group in summer 2012, their questions and suggestions sharpened the volume as a whole. Indeed, this book would not have been possible without the numerous studies of Acknowledgments xii a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s San Francisco’s policies that we and others conducted over the past fifteen years. Citations to those studies appear in each chapter. During this time we benefited frequently from the many discussions of the issues raised in this book and the insights of our past and current Berkeley colleagues , especially those at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center for Labor Research and Education: Sylvia Allegretto, David Card, Arindrajit Dube, Netsy Firestein, Peter Hall, Ethan Kaplan, William Lester, Enrico Moretti, Suresh Naidu, Steven Pitts, Katie Quan, Steven Raphael, and Carol Zabin. Rob McKay and Barry Hermanson provided small grants for our initial work on labor standards policies in San Francisco more than a decade ago. UC Berkeley’s support for research at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment provided the funding for our subsequent studies and for the preparation of this book. Vince Chhabria, Margot Feinberg, Julian Gross, Andy Katz, Jen Kern, Scott Kronland, Stacey Layton, David Rosenfeld, and Paul Sonn are among the many people working in the field who contributed to our understanding of the legal and institutional issues surrounding local labor standards policies. Too many individuals have been engaged in passing and implementing the policies to mention here. But we want to especially acknowledge some of those who graciously answered our many questions in the course of the research for this book: Donna Levitt, Ellen Love, and Donna Mandel at the Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, Tim Paulson, Shelley Kessler, Connie Ford, Ian Lewis, Sara Flocks, and Tangerine Brigham. Special thanks to then-supervisor, now Assembly member Tom Ammiano for his leadership and vision. We also wish to thank Eileen Appelbaum, Stephanie Luce, and Robert Pollin for their helpful comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to Zachary Goldman, Jared Park, and Luke Reidenbach for their excellent research assistance and to Jenifer MacGillvary for her help with preparing the manuscript. Peter Richardson at UC Press took an immediate interest in the topic and helped shepherd the book through the review process. He has been a terrific editor. ...

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