Wage worries
Wage worries
- January 30, 2012
- David Neumark, economics professor and Center for Economics and Public Policy director is featured in World Magazine January 29, 2012
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From World Magazine:
David Neumark, director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University
of California, Irvine, said no "sensible economist" would argue for a doubling of
the minimum wage. The question is: What do incremental increases do to employment?
Neumark said a consensus view is emerging that a 10 percent increase in the minimum
wage reduces employment among lowest-skilled groups by 1 percent to 2 percent. Look
no farther for evidence of the negative effects of a high minimum wage than Washington
and the other states raising the minimum wage: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana,
Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont. All eight states have minimum wages above the federal minimum
wage of $7.25. Seven of these eight states already have unemployment rates above the
national median.
For the full story, please visit http://www.worldmag.com/articles/19136.
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