The distorted minimum wage debate
The distorted minimum wage debate
- January 25, 2021
- David Neumark, economics, Cato Institute, Jan. 25, 2021
Which view better reflects our understanding? In a new working paper, economists David Neumark [Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine] and Peter Shirley assemble the entire set of published papers that examine the impact of minimum wage hikes on employment outcomes at the state and local level in the U.S. since 1992. … Neumark and Shirley summarize their findings by saying: “our evidence indicates that concluding that the body of research evidence fails to find disemployment effects of minimum wages requires discarding or ignoring most of the evidence.”
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