Washington Examiner:
New study finds minimum wage hikes lead to job automation
14 August 2017
States that raise their minimum wages may put low-skill workers at risk of having their jobs automated, according to a new academic paper published Monday. The study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that higher minimum wages are likely to lower employment in manufacturing jobs that can be performed by robots, and hit older, black, and female workers particularly hard. The paper, which has not yet gone through the peer review process, was written by Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine, one of the pre-eminent academic analysts of the minimum wage.
Related publications
People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
Published August 2017
Available on the NBER website