American economist
Two new studies confirm that a higher minimum wage would not be an unalloyed gain for low-wage workers. For their study, David Neumark and Peter Shirley “assembled the entire set…
Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon explains how the new president’s mininum-wage proposal ignores the best evidence on the topic. Democrats’ plan to hike the minimum wage would…
David Neumark, director of the Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine, proposes taxpayers directly fund half of any minimum wage increase with a high-wage tax…
Twenty academic studies on the minimum wage in Canada, but not one support the idea that increasing the minimum wage is good for non-skilled workers. Even our gentle neighbors from the…
That’s the not very surprizing finding of a new study by Grace Lordan (London School of Economics) and David Neumark (University of California, Irving). The title of the study is…
What the new study by Neumark and Shupe describe is a snowball effect: less work, fewer skills acquired, less overall employability, fewer later job opportunities, lower overall lifetime earnings.
Minimum Wage Hikes Hurt the Very People They’re Supposed to Help. In 2013 President Barack Obama joined Democrats in Congress pushing for an increase of the federal minimum wage to…
Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains for Washington Examiner readers why, despite its popularity, a minimum-wage increase remains a bad idea. There are few policies more popular than…
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, economics professor David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, lays out the data that clearly shows that hiking the minimum wage is not an…
Alex Adrianson of the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog takes note of recent evidence contradicting a popular left-of-center talking point on the minimum wage. When proponents say studies show that…
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute devotes his latest National Review Online column to the likely impact of the Democratic Party’s preferred economic policies. To put it in today’s standard…
Imposing a minimum wage has unintended negative consequences that harm the very people it is meant to help. That is not an item of controversy. Four out of five economists…