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Government study warns minimum wage hike leads to automation job loss

16 August 2017

The main people behind the study are London School of Economics’ Grace Lordan and University of California, Irvine’s David Neumark. Their conclusion is that “low-skilled” workers are at risk of losing their livelihood with a wage increase simply because their jobs could be replaced by automation.

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