Opinion: The case for keeping student minimum wage low
Everyone’s got a story about their first summer job.
Ask around and you’ll hear plenty of tales similar to mine. As a teenager, comedian Amy Poehler spent a summer working at an ice-cream shop that required her to play a kazoo to celebrate customers’ birthdays. “Summer jobs are often romantic,” she wrote in a 2013 New Yorker. “The time frame creates a perfect parenthesis.” While she learned to appreciate the attention of an audience, the budding actor came to loathe customer service. “I quit when the summer ended.
Alberta now joins Ontario as the only provinces that allow businesses to pay their youngest employees less than adults; previous governments in both provinces had recently raised their minimum wages by substantial amounts in what was a short-lived national trend. But while higher minimum wages are often hailed as a great advantage for the working class, its youngest members suffer for it.
And having secured that first job, teenagers become the beneficiaries of a host of further advantages with both personal and societal implications. Using data that tracked Canadian youth aged 15 over a decade, three academics from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia quantified a variety of positive and long-lasting effects arising from working while still in high school.
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