The Financial Times:
George Osborne's magic has fooled us, for now
10 July 2015
A large body of empirical evidence suggests either that reasonable minimum wages do not destroy jobs at all, or that they do not destroy very many. The evidence is, of course, mixed and contested. Much of it comes from the US and concerns the experience of teenagers, who - in the words of Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, ''represent about 2 per cent of hours worked and 98 per cent of the studies of the minimum wage''. But it is clear enough that if modest increases in the minimum wage were disastrous for jobs, we would know that by now.
This article was published by The Financial Times on July 10, 2015
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Related publications
Manning, A. (2015) Shifting the Balance of Power: workers, employers and wages over the next parliament, in Gavin Kelly and Conor D'Arcy (Eds) (2015) Securing a Pay Rise: the path back to shared wage growth, Resolution Foundation
Related podcast
The minimum wage in the UK and beyond, Alan Manning
LSE Works: Centre for Economic Performance public lecture, 26 February 2015
Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage
Community Programme webpage
Alan Manning CEP publications webpage