Economists still can’t decide whether the minimum wage is a good thing
Economists still can’t decide whether the minimum wage is a good thing
- August 22, 2017
- Research by David Neumark, economics, in Quartz, Aug. 22, 2017
Economists like the University of California, Irvine’s David Neumark and my colleague
Allison Schrager support boosting this credit rather than the minimum wage. Neumark
and Schrager are from a long line of economists concerned about how free markets for
labor impact the poor, but question whether the minimum wage is the best tool to address
those issues.
For the full story, please visit https://qz.com/1034952/economists-still-cant-decide-whether-the-minimum-wage-is-a-good-thing/.
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