[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/early-end-to-federal-unemplo...
> The enhanced payments create a tricky situation for restaurant owners, especially in states such as Georgia and Alaska that are looking to restart businesses in the coming weeks. Nationally, median hourly pay in food-service occupations was $11.65 in 2019, or $466 for a 40-hour week. In some states, restaurant workers could be receiving double their usual pay on unemployment benefits.
Natural experiments and studies are very difficult and easy to manipulate. So I think we can use first principles to tell us that if you pay people not to work, they will be more inclined to not work. I think you would need to definitively prove this not to be the case
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