Worker Earnings, Service Quality, and Firm Profitability: Evidence from Nursing Homes and Minimum Wage Reforms

This paper examines whether higher wages paid to low-income workers affects the quality of services they provide, focusing on the relationship between wage variation for direct care staff in long-term residential care settings (driven by minimum wage reforms) and resident health outcomes.

https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/worker-earnings-service-quality-and-firm-profitability-evidence-from-nursing-homes-and-minimum-wage-reforms/