What’s the evidence? First, there is what actually happens when minimum wages are increased. Many states set minimum wages above the federal level, and we can look at what happens when a state raises its minimum while neighboring states do not. Does the wage-hiking state lose a large number of jobs? No — the overwhelming conclusion from studying these natural experiments is that moderate increases in the minimum wage have little or no negative effect on employment.
有什么证据?首先,看看提高最低工资标准后实际会怎样。许多州的最低工资是高于联邦水平的,我们可以比较一下,当一个州提高最低工资,毗邻的州不提时会出现什么情况。加薪州会失去大量就业机会吗?不会——通过研究这些自然实验可以得出毋庸置疑的结论,最低工资的适度提高对就业的负面影响微乎其微。
Then there’s history. It turns out that the middle-class society we used to have didn’t evolve as a result of impersonal market forces — it was created by political action, and in a brief period of time. America was still a very unequal society in 1940, but by 1950 it had been transformed by a dramatic reduction in income disparities, which the economists Claudia Goldin and Robert Margo labeled the Great Compression. How did that happen?
然后再来看历史。你会发现,我们曾经拥有的中产阶级社会,并不是非人的市场力量促成的——它是政治行动的成果,只用了不长的一段时间。1940年的时候,美国还是非常不平等的社会,但到了1950年,贫富差距的缩小带来社会剧变,也就是被经济学家克劳迪亚·戈尔丁(Claudia Goldin)和罗伯特·马戈(Robert Margo)称为“大压缩”(Great Compression)的时期。这是怎么回事?
【老板们 给你的员工加薪吧】相关文章:
★ 从现在开始行动吧
★ 来自他人的善意
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15