Enforcement lapses are hard to quantify; they don't fit neatly into econometric studies. University of California, Irvine Economist David Neumark, co-author of a comprehensive overview of minimum wage research, told me via email that he isn't aware of any studies of the issue that take weak enforcement into account.

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