Some of the most careful and convincing empirical research on the employment effects of minimum wages has been done by David Neumark and William Wascher.

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Whatever you think about their approach, the Nobel committee has decided to honour Sargent and Sims for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".

BBC: The Nobel prize, and the ONS

My company LRN conducted an independent statistical analysis of how things actually work at companies, small and large, derived from a lengthy and rigorous empirical study of observations from 36, 000 employees in 18 countries conducted by the Boston Research Group, The Center for Effective Organizations at University of Southern California and Research Data Technology, Inc.

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Erring on the side of restricting research opportunities to which individuals may be invited is benign only if we assume that individuals can only be harmed, and never benefited, by participating in the research, a claim that is refuted by much of the empirical evidence discussed in this Article.

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Allison conducts and manages empirical research related to hidden bias and barriers in K-12, higher education, and the workplace.

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