Most minimum wage studies have found little or no job loss
www.epi.org
There is always a great deal of political heat around minimum wage increases, largely driven by concerns about job losses. After a minimum wage increase, the story goes, many employers will not be able to afford to pay their workers the new higher minimum wage and will therefore shrink their payrolls. If these job losses…

Actual study.

As the title says, we’ve got a growing dataset of minimum wage changes, and now plenty of evidence supporting that unemployment is not a matter of the minimum wage (at least, not for any change people are considering). There are plenty of citing studies that seem to support this, even internationally.

  • iopq
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    1 day ago

    Yes, more people make state or local minimum wage, but we don’t have numbers for that. But still, if you raise SF minimum wage a few dollars, it affects few people because the median is $96k (half of SF residents make more than this)

    It’s not surprising raising minimum wage doesn’t cause job losses because increasing it by a lot hadn’t been tried

    • ArtisianOPEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Wait… we don’t have wage data by state?

      What a world we live in…

      • iopq
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        10 hours ago

        Each city can set its own. SF minimum wage is $19.18, while California’s is $16.90