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Washington Post: It's not just paychecks: The surprising society-wide benefits of raising the minimum wage
8 July 2019
In the most definitive study to date, published this year in the top-rated Quarterly Journal of Economics, economists Doruk Cengiz and Dube as well as Attila Lindner of University College London and EPI's Zipperer evaluated the local effect of more than 130 minimum-wage increases since 1979 and showed the fall in jobs paying less than the new minimum wage had been fully offset by the jump in new jobs paying just over it.