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Minimum Wage Costs Jobs Print E-mail
Written by Professor Richard Vedder & Professor Lowell Gallaway (1995)   
Thursday, 23 November 1995

In a report that speaks volumes in relation to minimum wage laws in the UK, the authors show that unemployment rises each time minimum wages are raised; selectively higher in the very groups the rises are supposed to benefit. It's findings cannot be ignored.

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