Increasing Minimum Wages

Topic: Does increasing minimum wages cause employers to lower the number of employees?Audience: This paper will be written for an academic audience.Outline:Section I: For introduction paragraph, focus on giving the audience some context about minimum wage and how the cost of living has become more expensive. Does increasing or decreasing minimum wages impact the economy? Does an increased minimum wage cause unemployment for businesses?Section II: Talk about the history of minimum wages and why they are essential. What the pros and cons are for having a minimum wage.Section III: For this first paragraph, focus on what businesses do to adapt to an increased minimum wage. Do they cut production costs, cut labor costs, or increase prices?Section IV: In this paragraph, use data from the Chamber of Commerce, bea.gov, and American Community survey to collect these data. One experimental group will have a standard minimum wage, and the other group will have an increased minimum wage. Would the unemployment be higher, lower, or the same when the minimum wage is increased?Paragraph 3: Lastly, this paragraph will focus on the job quality of an increased minimum wage. Will the productivity, training, tenure, industry-specific norms, and performance expectations be stricter?Conclusion: Prove that increasing the minimum wage does not cause unemployment but positively influences employers.Works Cited:Card, D D., & Krueger, A. (1995). Employer Responses to the Minimum Wage: Evidence from the Fast-Food Industry. In the Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage – Twentieth-Anniversary Edition (pp. 20-77). PRINCETON; OXFORD: Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv7h0s52.6https://www-jstor-org.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/stable/j.ctv7h0s52.6refreqid=excelsior%3Aa651ba8d2228e970f9c96c3cce250f45&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contentsLester, T. W. (2020). Restructuring Restaurant Work: Employer Responses to Local Labor Standards in the Full-Service Restaurant Industry. Urban Affairs Review, 56(2), 605–639.https://journals-sagepub-com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/doi/10.1177/1078087418773907Romich, J. L., Allard, S. W., Obara, E. E., Althauser, A. K., & Buszkiewicz, J. H. (2020). Employer Responses to a City-Level Minimum Wage Mandate: Early Evidence from Seattle. Urban Affairs Review, 56(2), 451–479. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087418787667Zhao N, Sun M. Effects of minimum wage on workers’ on-the-job effort and labor market outcomes. The Econ Model. 2021;95:453-461. https://www-sciencedirect-com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/science/article/pii/S0264999319320012. doi: https://doi-org.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/10.101c6/j.econmod.2020.03.012.