Quick take: Don’t raise the minimum wage

Podcast
4 December, 2020

In this Quick Take episode, David Law responds to a joint paper released by Helen Clark Foundation and the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research about the minimum wage.

David reveals why raising the rate makes little economic sense at the best of times, and terrible sense during a recession.

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