Fewer teens looking for summer work
Fewer teens looking for summer work
- May 21, 2018
- Research by David Neumark, economics, in The Herald Bulletin, May 21, 2018
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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