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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib
Perhaps you'd read an article lately on how the Seattle minimum wage hike was bringing on full doom-and-gloom economic apocalypse for the poors?
About that...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ing-just-fine/
Turns out the study was pretty flawed. Shame on University of Washington!
LK,
You are completely out of your depth, and that opinion piece you linked is quite weak. Here's the study:
http://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/fi...ng%20Paper.pdf
(I know you won't read it, but maybe someone else will.)
Here's a 2-page summary:
https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/f...20overview.pdf
About the study: It was commissioned by the city of Seattle to evaluate the minimum wage increase they enacted. It has better data than prior studies because Washington is apparently one of only four states where the employment division collects not only individual wages, but hours too.
The Post story that you linked to is leaning heavily on the fact that the conclusions in this paper are different from conclusions in prior research. But here's the thing - the authors of this paper are able to show in Section 6.5 that it's likely the quality of their data, rather than bad analysis, that leads to different results than in some prior research. That is, when they follow the prior literature's cruder empirical approach, they get the same inferences (very little effect) as in prior research.