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B.C. announces minimum wage and other labour protections for app-based gig workers (biv.com)

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[–] villasv@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A much serendipitous coincidence: one of the economists that won the Economics Nobel Prize

for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging commonly held ideas

is Canadian!

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1830941/canadian-born-david-card-among-3-winners-of-nobel-in-economics

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