The 'living wage' attack on jobs and prosperity
The 'living wage' attack on jobs and prosperity
- June 8, 2026
- Work by David Neumark, economics, featured in Reason
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In a 2017 paper for Labour Economics, Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of the University of California-Irvine warned, "increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in automatable jobs become nonemployed or employed in worse jobs."
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