The Negative Impact of Low Wage Jobs

If a person has to work for a long time and the countless sleeping hours do not exist, the pressure level will skyrocket and it will be almost impossible to support the family by earning money. At the restaurant, a woman of about 40 years old is working full time. While she washes the dishes with bleaching water, her hands became wrinkled. She stretched the white hair under thick black hair. The black bag was under her eyes as if she was not asleep. This is loss incurred by ordinary skillful employees. Many people are caught up in this crisis.

They discovered that the working hours of low-wage work decreased by about 9%. This will allow the overall economic loss to exceed the funds generated by the increase in wages. This means not only a decrease in employment but also a decrease in average labor income and a decrease in economic input. According to the survey, raising the minimum wage of 13 dollars has devastating effects on low-wage workers. Research critics believe that it ignores other factors in the changing economy of Seattle. As Seattle saw the arrival of Amazon and other companies, the influx of high salary work and price hikes soared. They think that it is highly likely that these are the reasons for the reduction of low wage working hours. This may explain why the University of California Berkeley research measures only the catering industry (mainly employing low-paying workers) and did not notice this change.

When Seattle began moving to a minimum wage of $ 15, the city hired a team of economists at the University of Washington and analyzed the impact of wages on the city. Since then, the findings of Seattle's Minimum Wage Research Group are highly favorable. In 2016 they discovered that Seattle 's wage increased, city' s employment of low employment increased, and time worked. They reported earlier this year that the impact of wage increases on restaurant employment was almost zero. This week, the Seattle minimum wage research group's final survey, the Seattle minimum wage research group announced a report that the prices of restaurants and grocery stores did not rise due to the minimum wage.