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Does a higher minimum wage necessarily cost jobs?

Geoff Riley

15th January 2020

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This is a topical debate in the UK following ion from the 6 per cent hike in the legal pay floor due to take effect this spring.

Can we learn anything from recent increases in minimum wages in the United States? Here is a short video to higher minimum wages in Seattle

How Seattle businesses are responding to minimum wage hikes

And other video from Maine

Impacts of Maine's minimum wage increase

What the US gets wrong about minimum wage

What the US gets wrong about minimum wage
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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