However, new research by academics at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Irvine has found that raising national minimum wages has led to low-skilled workers being replaced by machines and other forms of automation. LSE associate professor Grace Lordan and Professor David Neumark of UCI studied the demographics of the United States from 1985 to 2015, and linked a ten percent increase in the minimum wage to a 0.31 percent decrease in the total share of tasks that, while capable of automation, are still carried out by low-skilled workers.

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