“Minimum wage laws likely play an important role in the high youth unemployment rates. This is where unskilled labor exists, which results in low marginal revenue product that makes it unprofitable for firms to hire workers above the minimum wage.”
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/us-unemployment-rates-by-age.html
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