# Professor Paul Romer's talk at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in central Seoul is featured

1 Faculty News March 28, 2019 ![Korea JoongAng Daily logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Korea-JoongAng-Daily-logo-feature.jpg?itok=odbcIajB)>

Excerpt from the [Korea JoongAng Daily](http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3061124&cloc=joongangdaily%7Chome%7Cnewslist1) -- "'Minimum wages, we know, can lead to a reduction in demand for workers and then to a pool of workers who are not connected to the labor force,' [Romer](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/paul-romer) said on Wednesday in response to a question on his thoughts on the Moon Jae-in government’s income-led growth policy and the minimum wage increases."

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