



The figure below is from a meta-study of 64 minimum wage studies conducted between 1972 and 2007, which found that the most precise estimates of the effects of increasing the minimum wage were heavily clustered at or near zero employment effects.

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Given that the increase in the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 is typical in size of past minimum wage increases, and the evidence shows that past minimum wage increases have led to employment effects that are indistinguishable from zero, it can be safely concluded that the evidence implies that increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 will increase the wages of low wage workers and not cause job loss.

See this paper by John Schmitt for a comprehensive review of the literature showing why the minimum wage doesn’t cause job loss.