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Financial Times:
Minimum wage marks 20 years without negative impact on jobs

1 April 2019

In the mid 1990s, a UK employer could advertise an opening for a security guard on an hourly wage of just £2 - with a requirement to bring their own dog.

Twenty years on from the introduction of a national minimum wage, such miserly job offers - noted in a paper by the labour market economist Alan Manning - are a thing of the past.

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