Wage increase = more health infractions

[aegsm76]

Seattle's minimum wage increase has resulted in more hygiene violations in restaurants.
link
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=2992783
snippet
We assess the effects of rise in minimum wages on hygiene violation scores in food service establishments. Using a difference-in-difference analysis on hygiene rating of food establishments in Seattle [where minimum wage increased annually between 2010 and 2013] as the treated group and from New York City [minimum wage was constant] as the control group, we find an increase in real minimum wage by $0.10 increased total hygiene violation scores by 11.45 percent. Consistent with our theoretical model, an increase in minimum wage in Seattle has no influence in more severe (red) violations, and a significant increase in less severe (blue) violations. Our findings are consistent while using an alternate control group - Bellevue City, King County, located near Seattle.

I heard this story on NPR, today.
Interesting study.

[Monterrey]

Any reason why they are connecting them? Just curious.

[aegsm76]

In the NPR interview, they were just curious about the effect.
There had been some theories that better paid employees would have better morale and would actually make the health scores better.
But, the opposite happened.

[Jito463]

Originally Posted by aegsm76

There had been some theories that better paid employees would have better morale and would actually make the health scores better.
But, the opposite happened.

[Aquila]

So, if we paid them nothing would they have a perfect score? lol