Minimum-wage debate rages on
Minimum-wage debate rages on
- February 2, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in the Chicago Tribune February 2, 2014
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From the Chicago Tribune:
Indeed, a rise in the minimum wage results in reduced employment among low-wage workers,
concludes a 2007 review of existing minimum-wage research by David Neumark of the
University of California, Irvine and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve. In a
subsequent review last year, they came to the same conclusion, unpersuaded by more
recent studies that came to the opposite conclusion.
For the full story, please visit http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-02/site/ct-minimum-wage-debat....
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