HR Dive:
Minimum-wage boosts only encourage more bots, researchers say
21 August 2017
Two economists said they've found new evidence that minimum-wage hikes force employers to automate low-skilled workers' jobs, reports CNBC. According to David Neumark of UC Irvine and Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics, the low-skilled workers hit hardest by unemployment are young, old, black and female. The research defined low-skilled workers as those with a high school education or less.
Related publications
People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
Published August 2017. Available on the NBER website