No conflation. The living wage is a concept --a wage level required to achieve a certain standard of living-- rather than an instrument. You wrote: "If all jo

No conflation. The living wage is a concept --a wage level required to achieve a certain standard of living-- rather than an instrument. You wrote: "If all jobs must pay a living wage..." - and it therefore follows that if all jobs pay a wage level at least that of a 'living wage', then the living wage becaomes the effective minimum wage paid by all jobs. Therefore evidence regarding the effects of a higher minimum wage are entirely relevant to a discussion of paying everyone at least a (higher) living wage.