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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Employment

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The Economist: Free Exchange | Jobs don't pay what they used to
If you could get rid of the minimum wage and instead adopt a policy in which the government simply subsidises the incomes of sub-minimum wage workers up to the minimum wage level, you'd unambiguously increase employment without forcing anyone to take home less pay.
Political Caluclations | Jobs Above and Below the Minimum Wage Line
Today's experiment shows how the number of jobs paying wages or salaries above and below the federal minimum wage has changed in each year since 2006.