The minimum wage will increase by more than 30 per cent in less than a year-and-a-half.
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In fact, 60 per cent of minimum wage workers are aged 15 to 24.
A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage leads to, on average, a three to six per cent decline in youth employment.
Minimum wage hikes result in low-skilled workers being less likely to find employment at an automatable job.
The Wynne government plans to raise the minimum wage to $15.
A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage leads to up to a four per cent drop in teen employment.
Twenty Canadian studies find that minimum wage hikes reduce employment opportunities for young workers.
The effect of the sharply rising minimum wage has been sharply rising joblessness among Seattle’s low-wage workers.
For every 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage, youth employment drops by three to six per cent.
Since 2003, manufacturing sales in Ontario have remained essentially unchanged yet increased by 20 per cent in B.C.