(For example, a study of pairs of neighboring counties with differing minimum pay found that higher wages had no adverse effect on restaurant jobs).
The BRC also surveyed low-paid employees in retail, defined as workers earning less than 20% above the minimum wage, and found that 70% were female, with a mean age of 35.
WASHINGTON -- Fast-food workers who are hoping to raise the minimum wage will find an ally in the Obama White House this week, with Labor Secretary Tom Perez traveling to Detroit on Tuesday to show his solidarity with the so-called Fight for $15. "I'm proud to stand with the Fight for 15 movement," Perez told The Huffington Post.
Barbara Ehrenreich (2001), by adopting the material life conditions of a poor woman, did an empirical study of the lives of women working for minimum wages and found their issues to be quite different from and ignored by middle and upper-class women.
Ye et al. (2015) found that compliance in China is quite high (only 3.5% of full-time workers earn less than the legal monthly minimum wage), but they found evidence for substantial non-compliance with overtime pay regulations (29% of the employees who work overtime are not paid any additional wage, and 70% are paid less than the legally required 1.5 times the regular wage).
Several studies comparing jobs markets with and without minimum wage rules have found little or no impact on employment.
Multiple studies have over many years, comparing cross-border jurisdictions with and without minimum wage provisions, have found that employment expands in line with wages.
Democrats and independent voters were strongly supportive of raising the minimum wage, the poll found, with 88 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independents in support.
The Fiscal Policy Institute compared states with different minimum wage rates and found that employment grew as much or faster in states with minimum wages above the federal level than in those at the federal level.
When focusing on young adults and at-risk groups (which are more likely to be affected by the minimum wage policy), we found stronger disemployment effects in the East, lagged disemployment effects in the Central, and positive while insignificant effects in the Western region.
