Wascher

Interestingly if you actually read the latest Neumark & Wascher paper on the minimum wage -- rather then just the very misleading abstract -- you see that their latest research shows that the only group to suffer a rise in unemployment from a rise in the minimum wage are black teenager males.

"The Hidden Gender Restriction"; or, the Economics of Waiting to Exhale, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Ferguson and Wascher point out that previous productivity booms have come to an end, in part because innovations became "played out."

More on the Productivity Story, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Neumark and Wascher who used the same data contradict Card and Krueger.

Liberals and Walmart, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

And yes, it would require you arguing the finer points of the research, such as Card/Kreuger's use of phone surveys for data collection, and the subsequent checking of their New Jersey data by Neumark and Wascher via actual payroll records of the same businesses, which not only failed to confirm the C/K results but indeed found the expected negative employment effect.

The Law of DUH! (T) 2007

In fact, basic statistical tests demonstrated convincingly that the Neumark and Wascher sample showed so much more variation in employment changes across restaurants that it was highly unlikely that the two samples were chosen randomly from the same population of restaurants.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005

So Neumark and Wascher two right-wing economists working with EPI reviewed the payroll employment data gathered by EPI.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005

Even Neumark and Wascher had to admit that the EPI was not a neutral party.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005

To get around the “super-secret data” problem, the economists the EPI was working with, Neumark and Wascher, gathered their own data.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005

Neumark and Wascher scrambled to explain their results.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005

Where payroll data could be compared with survey data for specific restaurants, Neumark and Wascher also found numerous errors in the Card/ Krueger data.

Power Line on the Minimum Wage 2005