Should the national minimum wage be raised?
Should the national minimum wage be raised?
- October 25, 2018
- David Neumark, economics, via MLive and The Tylt, Oct 25, 2018
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An extensive survey of decades of minimum-wage research, published by William Wascher
of the Federal Reserve Board and David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine,
in the 2008 book "Minimum Wages," generally found a 1 percent or 2 percent reduction
for teenage or very low-skill employment for each 10 percent minimum-wage increase.
For the full story, please visit https://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/should_the_national_minimum_wa.html.
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