The Burger Flipper Who Became a World Expert on the
Minimum Wage
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/minimum-wage-arindrajit-dube-on-economic-impact-of-15-an-hour
“Dube was an undergraduate at Stanford in 1994 when David Card and Alan Krueger published the paper that shattered conventional wisdom on minimum wages. They compared fast-food jobs in New Jersey, which raised the state minimum wage in 1992 to $5.05 an hour, with those in neighboring counties of Pennsylvania, which stayed at $4.25, and found no employment effects from the hike.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/minimum-wage-arindrajit-dube-on-economic-impact-of-15-an-hour
“Dube was an undergraduate at Stanford in 1994 when David Card and Alan Krueger published the paper that shattered conventional wisdom on minimum wages. They compared fast-food jobs in New Jersey, which raised the state minimum wage in 1992 to $5.05 an hour, with those in neighboring counties of Pennsylvania, which stayed at $4.25, and found no employment effects from the hike.
The minimum wage: does it hurt workers? |
The Economist
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The Budgetary Effects of the Raise the Wage Act of
2021 – CBO Report
How a Minimum-Wage Increase Is Being Felt in a
Low-Wage City
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/business/economy/minimum-wage-fresno-california.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/business/economy/minimum-wage-fresno-california.html
Biden Wants a $15 Minimum Wage. Here’s What People
Say It Would Do to the Economy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-wants-a-15-minimum-wage-heres-what-people-say-it-would-do-to-the-economy-1161234820159% of workers who would benefit from a $15 minimum wage are women—here’s how it would affect the pay gap
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/what-15-minimum-wage-could-mean-for-women-and-the-pay-gap.html
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