The Social Costs of Repealing Wisconsin’s Prevailing Wage Law
- Posted: November 12, 2018
- IBEW Local 134
The social costs of repealing prevailing wage must be considered by elected officials. While critics of Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law claim that the state would save money on public construction projects from repealing the policy, they do not take into account the negative tax and government assistance consequences of repeal. This report primarily uses the assumptions made by critics of Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law to demonstrate, as a “though experiment,” the potential social costs of repeal…
