Minimum Wage Not Applicable Federal living wage would be a huge increase, much larger than the minimum wage, so past studies easily apply. Prefer living wage-specific evidence. don’t Kuehn 14 Daniel, former research associate at the Urban Institute, doctoral student @ American University in economics, MA from George Washington, Importance of Study Design in the “The Minimum-Wage Economic Policy Institute 9-4-14 [PDI] Debate,” Study design offers a means of arbitrating between studies in the often conflicting minimum-wage literature. The strongest designs seem to consistently find little or no evidence of disemployment effects associated with increases in the minimum wage. However, when applying this these findings do come with caveats. we can only make inferences about research to policymaking, First, the impact of a minimum-wage increase if it is relatively similar to the sorts of increases that have been studied. their is “conclusion Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010, 962) caution that limited by the scope of the actual variation in policy; our results cannot be extrapolated to predict the impact of a minimum-wage increase that is much larger than what we have experienced over the period under study.”
Minimum Wage Not Applicable Federal living wage would be a huge increase, much larger than the minimum wage, so past studies don’t easily apply. Prefer living wage-specific evidence. Kuehn 14 Daniel, former research associate at the Urban Institute, doctoral student @ American University in economics, MA from George Washington, “The Importance of Study Design in the Minimum-Wage Debate,” Economic Policy Institute 9-4-14 [PDI] Study design offers a means of arbitrating between studies in the often conflicting minimum-wage literature. The strongest designs seem to consistently find little or no evidence of disemployment effects associated with increases in the minimum wage. However, when applying this research to policymaking, these findings do come with caveats. First, we can only make inferences about the impact of a minimum-wage increase if it is relatively similar to the sorts of increases that have been studied. Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010, 962) caution that their “conclusion is limited by the scope of the actual variation in policy; our results cannot be extrapolated to predict the impact of a minimum-wage increase that is much larger than what we have experienced over the period under study.”
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