A more recent meta study (2013) seems to claim otherwise: > The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the m

A more recent meta study (2013) seems to claim otherwise: > The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage. > The report reviews evidence on eleven possible adjustments to minimum-wage increases that may help to explain why the measured employment effects are so consistently small. The strongest evidence suggests that the most important channels of adjustment are: reductions in labor turnover; improvements in organizational efficiency; reductions in wages of higher earners ("wage compression"); and small price increases. http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf