Professors Neumark and Wascher argue, however, that this is where the evidence is clear.
"In years past, it may seem that families gathered around the table more often than they do today, " says Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.
Their use of survey data, however, was seriously flawed and their results were refuted by University of California at Irvine economist David Neumark and others.
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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.
In this 2006 Policy Study, David Neumark summarizes the evidence.
Other studies though, particularly those by David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine and William Wascher at the Federal Reserve, consistently found the opposite.
Not surprisingly, their results were overturned by more careful research that found an adverse effect on employment (see David Neumark and William Wascher, American Economic Review, 2000).
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Professors Neumark and Wascher also offer a clear and even-handed assessment of empirical examples that seem to contradict the prediction that a higher minimum wage would reduce employment.
Mr Neumark and his colleagues could not measure wages directly.
"Traffic is the great equalizer in New York, " stated Ms. Neumark, whose trucks negotiate the city daily and whose success depends on getting deliveries to their destinations in a timely fashion.
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Mr Neumark, unsurprisingly perhaps, finds the opposite result.
David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.
In the case of Cheryl Hodge, it was two panel members: Liz Neumark, the founder and CEO of Great Performances, one of the city's leading catering companies, and Paul Dolan, the executive director of ABC News International.
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Liz Neumark, who gave the Keynote at the recent WEF 3 I attended, a festival for Women Entrepreneurs held at NYU in New York, grew her successful catering business on five key ideas which she shared with us.
Professor Neumark summarized some of their findings in a column published in the Wall Street Journal last summer, and he discusses the basic economic theory (and the evidence) in a short, accessible 2006 Policy Study for the Show-Me Institute.
Saltsman also tells me that Card and Krueger responded to the critique by Neumark and Wascher, in a paper published in the same issue of The American Economic Review as the Neumark and Wascher paper, re-evaluating their own data and scrutinizing payroll data raised by other scholars.
"New York is a democratic city, " he said meaning, I suppose, as did Ms. Neumark, that all of us at one time or another, and often daily, have experienced the profound impotence of sitting in stalled traffic in Midtown, on the FDR Drive or on one of our celebrated bridges or tunnels.
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