Everything you ever needed to know about the minimum wage
Everything you ever needed to know about the minimum wage
- December 16, 2013
- Work by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in The Atlantic and Yahoo! Finance December 16, 2013
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From The Atlantic:
Conservatives tend to champion work by David Neumark, an economist at the University
of California, Irvine, and William Wascher, of the Federal Reserve Board. Early critics
of Card and Krueger, their research compares employment trends across entire states,
using elaborate statistical controls to isolate the impact of minimum wages. They
have consistently found that requiring businesses to pay their workers more reduces
employment among teens.
For the full story, please visit http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/should-we-raise-the-....
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