Consider the Trade-Offs of a Minimum Wage Hike

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Marc Kilmer November 5, 2018November 5, 2018 0 Comments arkansas center for research in economics, Issue 5, minimum wage, Thomas Snyder

Consider the Trade-Offs of a Minimum Wage Hike

Voters will go to the polls shortly and decide, among other things, whether to increase Arkansas’s minimum wage. While advocates

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Marc Kilmer November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 0 Comments Issue 5, Jeremy Horpedahl, minimum wage, Robert P. Murphy

Some Problems with a Minimum Wage Hike

Soon Arkansas voters will be deciding whether or not to increase the state’s minimum wage from $8.50 an hour to

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Marc Kilmer October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 0 Comments arkansas center for research in economics, Jeremy Horpedahl, minimum wage, University of Central Arkansas

Minimum Wage Hike Will Have a Big Impact

On Election Day, voters will have a chance to decide if Arkansas workers will be prohibited from accepting a job

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Caleb Taylor April 13, 2015 0 Comments arkansas minimum wage, Free markets, minimum wage, seattle $15 wage law, target, Wal-Mart

Free Markets, Not Minimum Wage Laws, Raise Salaries

That’s why competition and free enterprise are the best solution to raising wages, not government intervention and minimum wage laws.

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Caleb Taylor December 11, 2014 0 Comments barriers to entry, cato institute, economic policy, minimum wage

STUDY: Minimum Wage Increases Harms Low-Skilled Workers

We’ve written previously about how the recently-passed minimum wage hike in Arkansas will limit opportunities for low-skilled workers.

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Caleb Taylor November 14, 2014 0 Comments arkansas center for research in economics, minimum wage, occupational licensing

Expert: Arkansas “Headed In Wrong Direction” On Worker Freedom

Arkansans are “headed in the wrong direction” for low-wage worker freedom in Arkansas, an economist said in a speech at an Arkansas Center for Research In Economics event in Conway last night.

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Caleb Taylor October 28, 2014 2 Comments arkansas supreme court, David Sterling, Hillary Clinton, minimum wage

Fraud-Ridden Minimum Wage Issue OK’d by Supreme Court

The Arkansas Supreme Court, in its opinion yesterday, removed the final obstacle to a statewide vote on hiking the minimum wage. One startling aspect of the Court’s decision is that it appeared to tolerate — and, thus, to encourage — a significant level of petition fraud.