A recent Mercatus Center study, authored by economists [UCI Professor] David Neumark and Cortnie Shupe, identified higher minimum wages as the "predominant factor" in the decline in the teen labor force participation rate. The economists studied the sharp decline in teen employment since 2000, writing: “a rising minimum wage (on the state and federal level) could have priced some teenagers out of the labor market.”

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