The accumulated evidence undermines the case for minimum wages even in the best of times.
Thus, the job-destroying effects of minimum wages fall particularly hard on low-skilled adults in poor families.
There is also evidence that the short-term consequences of minimum wages have long-term effects.
Labor policies like minimum wages or federal contracting rules requiring union pay diminish opportunities for work.
And voters in six states, including Arizona, approved initiatives raising minimum wages for their lowest-paid citizens.
Ever wonder what our labor market would look like without minimum wages or labor law protections?
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Whether we like it or not, minimum wages create unemployment for the poorest among us.
In 2012, 25 provinces raised minimum wages by an average of 20%, official data show.
Several studies of the 1990s find that higher minimum wages helped reduce poverty, albeit modestly.
Some cities, such as Beijing, have announced increases in their minimum wages of up to 20%.
They will be entitled to regular benefits such as minimum wages and due process.
If reducing poverty is what the politicians are seeking, minimum wages are not the answer.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
The effects of minimum wages are among the most tragic examples of the law of unintended consequences.
Consider what happened in South Africa after the government decided to be strict about enforcing minimum wages.
Politicians, and the general public, often favour minimum wages as a means of reducing poverty and inequality.
There is no research supporting the claim that minimum wages reduce the proportion of families living in poverty.
It raised minimum wages in various parts of the country, in some areas by as much as 40%.
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Hold on, because yet another new idea, much more hostile to minimum wages, has now been put forward.
Studies of eight sectors that have minimum wages commissioned by the labour ministry show little damage to employment.
Minimum wages, protection from discrimination, restrictions on hours worked, sundry occupational safety codes, unemployment and disability insurance already exist.
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Those who viscerally oppose such minimum wages have been doing it for years.
Today's consensus, insofar as there is one, seems to be that raising minimum wages has minor negative effects at worst.
This would be ferociously expensive these days what with minimum wages and the extreme shortage of maidens, comely or not.
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It is national rules on minimum wages, hiring and firing and the like that now gum up the jobs market.
Government decrees will not increase the value of their labor, and minimum wages will push them out of the labor market.
Minimum wages have risen by an average of nearly 22% in the two-thirds of China's provinces which have adjusted them this year.
All the same, German unions fear wages being squeezed in manual work, particularly construction, where they have been negotiating minimum wages agreements.
Price floors like minimum wages and price ceilings like rent control hurt precisely the people they are allegedly enacted to help.
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