David Neumark, an economist and the director of the Center for Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, whose research has found negative employment effects from minimum-wage laws, said via email that while the report was “interesting evidence, [it was] clearly not up to the standards of the best academic work estimating the employment effects of minimum wages.”
 
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