January 27, 2026
More than raises that elevate unemployment, the responses to minimum wage hikes include a slew of possibilities that increase the tradeoffs.
July 15, 2024
June 25, 2024
When a municipality wants to do good by boosting gig worker pay, it discovers there could be unintended consequences.
April 30, 2024
While California's minimum wage update takes us to new data, it does not end the debate on the impact of increasing the minimum wage.
April 2, 2024
With California's minimum wage hike to $20 for selected workers, economists continue to debate if the increase boosts unemployment.
February 6, 2024
While the minimum wage economic debate tends to look at floors and job loss, instead it also needs a cost-of-living focus.
November 8, 2023
Having just gone up, garment workers' wages in Bangladesh show the tradeoff between cheap fast fashion and fair pay.
February 20, 2023
Continuing to debate the minimum wage impact, economists still do not agree how, if, and when jobs are lost.
October 20, 2021
Whether looking at Germany's minimum wage hike or David Card's classic 1992 study, still raising the minimum wage can be controversial.
February 26, 2021
February 12, 2021
November 11, 2020
Traveling around the United States, you would see a minimum wage that varied from state to state and among different cities.