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All of this was familiar to me except the sex effect. Why are males disproportionately impacted?

• alisonkisk 6y ago
  Women can be supported by men in exchange for cohabitation, without minimum wage concerns.
• blix 6y ago
  One argument I've heard is that women tend to do better at men at picking up 'soft skills,' i.e. interacting with other people, while men tend to be better at physical labor. New low-skill jobs tend to focus on soft skills, while jobs requiring physical labor are disappearing. It's unclear how much of this shift is driven by the minimum wage, but certianly it incentivizes automation/outsourcing/illegal labor, which tend to disproportionately affect physical jobs. This leaves poor, uneducated men pretty vulnerable. I don't have any sources on hand, but there was a nice feature in the Economist about this a year or two ago.
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• DeonPenny 6y ago
  I heard its cause 1 boys do worse in school because they more disagreeable so learning on the job becomes more important. And 2 men do 80% of the trade jobs which on the job training or being comfortable in job environment before hand is a lot more important. But yeh boys unemployement jumps when minimum wage is increase typically. And increases criminal behavior based on some studies. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/teenjobless.png?x88519 https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/teenjobless.p...