<p>sakky, you discredit yourself. For all your talk about empirical evidence you seem to be ignoring an awful lot of it. I shouldn’t have to do your googling for you, nor should you necessarily hold so much stock in “cutting edge research in the latest journals,” or how often a paper is cited, but rather empirical evidence and reason, which is timeless.</p>
<p>But I googled for you anyway, and now I’m leaving this thread:</p>
<p>[Minimum</a> Wages: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty](<a href=“http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MinimumWages.html]Minimum”>Minimum Wages - Econlib)
[Minimum</a> wage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Minimum wage - Wikipedia”>Minimum wage - Wikipedia)</p>