New study finds minimum wage hikes lead to job automation
New study finds minimum wage hikes lead to job automation
- August 14, 2017
- David Neumark, economist, in the Washington Examiner, Aug. 14, 2017
The study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that higher
minimum wages are likely to lower employment in manufacturing jobs that can be performed
by robots, and hit older, black, and female workers particularly hard. The paper ...
was written by Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of
the University of California at Irvine, one of the pre-eminent academic analysts of
the minimum wage.
For the full story, please visit http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-study-finds-minimum-wage-hikes-lead-to-job-automation/article/2631432.
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