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Problem on Minimum Wage Laws

The Minimum wage legislation is UNLIKELY to aid: (i) Skillful workers who compete with untrained workers. (ii) Untrained workers who don’t lose their jobs. (iii) Buyers of goods which are more capital intensive associative to the buyers of labor intensive goods. (iv) Untrained workers who lose their jobs since of the higher nominal wage. (v) Teenagers who are employed at higher nominal legal wage.

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