michaelreich
- BRG, an industry consulting group, claims that seasonally corrected data from FRED shows fast food employment losses in CA relative to other states. But FRED does not account for the much smaller seasonality of CA fast food. My report does so-- and finds no employment losses.
- EmPI claims my DDD is a "cover-up" of employment losses because "full-service restaurants are also struggllng." But whether full-service restaurants are declining or not does not enter into a DDD method.
- The DDD estimate controls for changes in full-service restaurants in CA relative to those in other states, to ameliorate any confounding non-minimum wage related changes, such as differential economic or population growth.
- The Employment Policies Institute, a creature of the National Restaurant Association claims I'm an SEIU researcher (???) misquotes from my report and misunderstands the DDD method
- New report on California's $20 fast food minimum wage using D-in-D and DDD: 8-9 percent wage increases, no effects on employment and a 1.5 percent minimum wage increase: irle.berkeley.edu/publications...
- Striking San Francisco hotel workers from Unite HERE Local 2 have won contracts with all the holdout hotels, pending a ratification vote today on the Hilton contract. The strike is over. ASSA attendees who have expressed their support for the strikers, in word or deed, may have made a difference.
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