text: Minimum wage - cont'd
  
  Those who oppose a higher minimum wage assume that raising wages  forces employers out of business as costs rise.  But price is a function of demand, not cost.
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  The bigger question is whether gross inequality of bargaining power is, on the whole, allowing employers to extract non-competitive economic rents from their employees.  That is a much tougher question.
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  One of the big distortions of the labour market arises from the non-entitlement of part time and "casual" employees to full-time benefits.
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  This creates enormously perverse incentives, and effectively allows large users of part-time employment to slough the cost of social services on the rest of the economy. I.e., they are extracting a tax subsidy at the cost of every other taxpayer.
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  This can be solved by requiring that benefits be paid pro rata for part time employment.
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  Is that causing market distortion?
  Or fixing market distortion?
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  Sometimes "market distortion" is in the eye of the beholder.