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Minimum wage increases lead to automation

Low-skilled workers will be hit hardest by unemployment after automation claims their jobs.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on August 22, 2017
Boosts in the minimum wage bring increases in automation as employers replace low-skilled workers. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

According to a new research paper, boosts in the minimum wage bring increases in automation as employers replace low-skilled workers with devices such as robotic arms and self-service checkouts. 

That’s according to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper by David Neumark of UC Irvine and Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics. According to the paper, low-skilled workers will be hit hardest by unemployment after automation claims their jobs; particularly at risk are young, old, black and female workers with a high school education or less. 

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