The phrase "a modest negative effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of something that is slight or not significant in a negative way.
Example: "The new policy has a modest negative effect on employee morale, but overall productivity remains stable."
Alternatives: "a slight adverse impact on" or "a minor detrimental effect on".
Some experimental studies in the West have shown that income maintenance schemes have a modest negative effect on the working hours of beneficiaries.
"[The CBO's] best judgment was that it would have a modest negative effect on employment and a modest positive reduction in poverty rates," Burkhauser says.
The RE, KE, and EK mutations had a modest negative effect on dephosphorylation rates (data not shown).
This last observation is consistent with the shallowness of the composite surface, which would likely have a modest negative effect on accessibility of a structured substrate to the active site and even less so to inhibit an unstructured phosphorylated peptide (such as GSTP).
Combined with the modest negative effect on middle-aged female part-time workers, the results of my study suggest that in response to the mandated continued employment of elderly workers, firms primarily cut wages of elderly workers, and some firms reduced the number of female part-time workers.
Their findings suggest no effect on white students but modest negative effects on minority female students in the receiving schools.
Previous studies that focused on the effect of immigrants on the achievement of native students have found modest negative effects or no overall effect.
These mechanisms can operate even when treatment has a modest, or even negative, effect on an individual host's colonization with resistant organisms.
Our data here suggest that MET inhibition (SU11274) in H1975 cells had a modest but detectible negative effect on ERBB3 activation, and that dual SU11274/erlotinib inhibition cooperatively abrogated p-ERBB3 signal activation completely.
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It's necessary to at least pause and consider research that shows minimum wage hikes can have a modest negative affect on overall employment specifically among teenagers but as Slate's $15 wage critic Jordan Weissmann himself points out, that side effect is perfectly acceptable so long as most workers are making out better in the long run.
