Comments on: California: we’ll make our citizens guinea pigs for $15 minimum https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/california-well-guinea-pig-15-minimum/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Estimate: $15 wage to cost California taxpayers $3.6 billion/year - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/california-well-guinea-pig-15-minimum/comment-page-1/#comment-334948 Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:45:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58332#comment-334948 […] legislative analyst projects that raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, as a pending deal among political bigwigs would do, would cost taxpayers $3.6 billion more a year in government pay […]

]]> By: gasman https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/california-well-guinea-pig-15-minimum/comment-page-1/#comment-334837 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 18:18:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=58332#comment-334837 Both sides of the minimum wage debate make testable hypotheses.
So let the States be the laboratory. Should be instructive for all to watch.

Need some way though to make it scientifically rigorous. Without a good control group, changes in fortune of the general economy will also drive the results.

Here is an example of a natural experiment. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/08/28/343430393/a-mall-with-two-minimum-wages

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