The Minimum Wage and Job Loss
By John Schmitt
01-01-96
January 1996 | Briefing Paper #60
The minimum wage and job loss
Opponents of wage hike find no
effect
by John Schmitt
The Employment Policies Institute (EmPI) says it has statistical proof that raising the minimum wage reduces employment, but its findings are strangely out of line with other studies, and it won't share its data with independent researchers.
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