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"But their higher wages come at the expense of profits."
Not necessarily. The cost of the higher wages may be passed on to consumers.
Living wage trade-offs
How should we think about trade-offs in economic policy? Some tweets by Jon Stone have raised this question. To see the issue, take the Resolution Foundation's estimate (pdf) of the effect of fully implementing a living wage. It reckons such a policy would raise the gross earnings of around fiv...
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