Their use of survey data, however, was seriously flawed and their results were refuted by University of California at Irvine economist David Neumark and others.

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D. student in physics, and his advisor, Professor David Kirkby from the University of California at Irvine.

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Other studies though, particularly those by David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine and William Wascher at the Federal Reserve, consistently found the opposite.

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David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.

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