Minimum wage legislation is a widely used policy tool put in place to increase wages of low-skilled workers. A minimum wage is usually the legal minimum wage(hourly‚ daily or monthly) that an employer can pay to employees. While many argue the numerous rationales of implementing a minimum wage‚ others find that the implementation of minimum wage can bring about harm. Among others‚ some benefits of minimum wage legislation include: protection of workers from exploitation by employers/firms‚ reducing
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Should Minimum Wage be Raised? Some people believe that raising minimum wage will help with economic growth‚ while others believe that minimum wage would do the opposite and actually force the manager to lay off many employees and raise unemployment levels. After researching both sides of this argument I believe that minimum wage should not be raised because after the price is higher‚ the company will not have enough money to pay all their employees and would have to make sacrifices such as laying
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1/5 Minimum Wage Policy and the influence it has on the economy As wage is one of the key elements to which people attach greatest importance when finding and choosing a job‚ wage policies of a country can do a lot more to the economy of the society in many aspects such as employment‚ productivity‚ inflation than we people often thinks they can. Every country has its own wage policies‚ which is due to their political structure and many more other factors. Different wage policies have different influence
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Minimum wage law has a negative effect on the economy For years‚ people have constantly relied on government to defend social justice by interfering in the economy. However‚ these policies can have unintended opposing aftermath. One example of a very popular yet improper regulation is the minimum wage law. Minimum wages have a negative effect on the economy‚ because the increase of minimum wage results in a repeating scenario of the need to increase the minimum wage. Higher minimum wages lead to
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Economic Effect of Minimum Wage During the Great Depression‚ many people were faced with unemployment and desperately tried to seek employment. Many employers tried to advantage of the labor market and hire for very little pay wages. In order to prevent the exploitation of cheap labor‚ the United States stepped in and passed the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938‚ which dictated a minimum hourly rate of $.25 cents per hour. David Cooper‚ senior economic analyst and deputy director at Economic
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Should students have a part-time job in their free time? Different countries and cultures may have fully different answers for the same question. Although Chinese nowadays are affected a lot by western culture‚ there are still existing much diversity between China and America‚ especially on this question‚ the differences are obvious. This essay will explain four differences of people’s attitude towards students working part-time in China and America. First of all‚ I will explain students’ attitude
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In the article “Would raising the minimum wage help alleviate poverty”‚ David Cooper makes a valid point on the subject. Cooper talks about how he believes the minimum wage should be raised because he thinks it will help end poverty. In his column he also gives statistics on why it would be better to raise the minimum wage. As stated in the pros column written by David Cooper‚ minimum wage should be raised to help people in poverty‚ help people pay for education‚ and to allow people to have
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Against a Higher Minimum Wage raising the minimum wage hurts the poor. It takes away jobs‚ keeps people on welfare‚ and encourages high-school students to drop out. Policy makers should be clear on the consequence of higher minimum wages. Jobs and the Minimum Wage Economists have studied the job-destroying features of a higher minimum wage. It is important to recognize that the jobs lost are mainly entry-level jobs. By destroying entry-level jobs‚ a higher minimum wage harms the lifetime
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of raising the minimum wage. Groups of people have paraded in streets and on sidewalks with signs and cheers‚ “Fight for 15!” While approximately 72% of americans fight for almost a 50 percent increase in the minimum wage‚ the rest have realized how fragile the economy and its businesses are. Raising the minimum wage would create more negative effects than good. Small businesses‚ employees‚ and the cost of living would all be greatly affected if there were to be a raise in wages. Small businesses
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Arguments for and against the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK: stop employees being taken advantage of by being paid unfair wages by their employers. set a standard of the minimum worth of a worker. This benchmark was set so that employers would be unable to hire any staff for less than the suggested hourly rate. reduce pay differentials between genders. What is the new minimum wage?: In October 2009‚ the NMW for workers increased from: £5.73 to £5
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