It seems a reasonable *example* of the perversity argument? Even pro-MW economists generally believe that a sufficiently large MW could cause disemployment
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I don't know what you mean by "currently tabled". Sunstein was specifically referring to an increase to $15, which is plausibly high enough to cause disemployment, following the conventional Kaitz index.
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Modal economist on IGM think $15 would have uncertain effects: https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/15-minimum-wage/ …pic.twitter.com/3NDtr6Hzyz
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No disemployment effects in Mississippi? How are you so confident? Seems like a nationally fixed MW would have very different impacts in different regions of the country.
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Mississippi isn't that poor anymore, not like it was during and before the Great Depression.
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