Neumark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, about research that shows no harmful effects on hiring when the minimum wage is increased, he told me that those studies are outliers. “There’s quite a bit of agreement,” he said in an interview. “You do see papers sometimes claiming that there are no disemployment effects from the minimum wage. They tend to come from the same people. And clearly some of them, the ones coming out of the UC Berkeley group”—a reference to the famously liberal flagship campus of the University of California—“clearly they have a political
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