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Generally minimum-wage laws cause increases in :
- Employment Rate
Even though many people would argue that minimum wage laws will make a lot of people lose their jobs, statistics proved otherwise. According to research conducted in 2013, minimum wage laws increased employment rates by more than 2 %,
- Total GDP
more employment rate means more production output, which means more GDP earned
- Improve standard of living
Sine now companies cannot give inhumane salary to workers, it generally improve people's standard of living