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Publication Date: December 1983
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Peter G. Germanis
Research Area: Labor
Keywords: Labor
Type: Report
Abstract:
The Davis-Bacon Act is justified on neither efficiency nor equity grounds. It distorts the labor market by imposing a wage floor on federal construction contracts; it increases unemployment in the construction industry; it boosts costs to the taxpayer; and it prices lower-skilled workers--most notably nonunion and minority workers--out of the market.