Matthew W. Thomas@FantasticalEconomics @jackofalltrades @phiofx @phil_stevens @GeofCox @504DR @lienrag @gerrymcgovern you need a theory to do any sort of prescriptive analysis though. Empirical work can tell you what happened, but you need a theory to suggest why, how, or if it will happen again in a different place under different circumstances.
In this specific case, there are multiple models that have labor increasing in response to a minimum wage. I even made one.
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