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is very unlikely to have a large negative employment effect.

Card and Krueger's book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage is the best (though early) summary of these two strands of the new minimum wage research. Their detailed review of studies using a variety of methods and datasets to examine restaurant workers, retail employment, and teenagers, concludes: The weight of this evidence suggests that it is very unlikely that the minimum wage has a large, negative employment effect.9

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