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World watches Britain's 'living wage' experiment

29 March 2016

''My view of the history of minimum wages is that we've always been surprised about how you seem to be able to push them up without harming job prospects,'' says Alan Manning, a professor at the London School of Economics.

This article was published by the Financial Times on March 29, 2016
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Related publications
Minimum wages: the economics and the politics, Alan Manning. Article in CentrePiece, Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2014
Big ideas: The UK's National Minimum Wage, Alan Manning. Article in CentrePiece, Volume 14, Issue 2, Autumn 2014
All CEP research publications on the National Minimum Wage can be seen here

Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Community Programme webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

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