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Those same researchers went back and added a ton more nuance to their findings: They Said Seattle’s Higher Base Pay Would Hurt Workers. Why Did They Flip? https
by dlp211 7y ago
Those same researchers went back and added a ton more nuance to their findings: They Said Seattle’s Higher Base Pay Would Hurt Workers. Why Did They Flip? https://nyti.ms/2AmgaNr https://nyti.ms/2AmgaNr
Broken in to 3 groups, high hour min wage, low hour min wage, and new entrants, both the high and low hour workers were better off and it's inconclusive how new entrants were affected, though there was a flattening of hiring new entrants.
There was also a lot of push back on the original paper which failed to account for a lot of cofounding factors.