Minimum wage hike and income inequality: That’s all you’ve got?
Minimum wage hike and income inequality: That’s all you’ve got?
- March 25, 2014
- Research by David Neumark, economics Chancellor's Professor and Center for Economics & Public Policy director, is featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune March 25, 2014
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From The San Diego Union-Tribune:
Democrats are pushing for big hikes in the minimum wage as a way to address income
inequality…. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark’s review of
100-plus major academic studies … concluded that 85 percent of the analyses “find
a negative employment effect on low-skilled workers.” … Even if minimum-wage hikes
don’t kill jobs, the idea that this policy is a promising solution to income inequality
makes little sense.
For the full story, please visit http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/mar/25/minimum-wage-hike-income-ineq....
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