It has never been proven that an increase in minimum wage has led to inflation or unemployment.
Perhaps. But when an increase in the minimum wage does not correlate to a growth in output of goods....you have the classic definition of inflation....and that is...to much money chasing too few goods.
This is further exacerbated in a country like the DR where a proportionately higher number of workers (relative to the US/EU) earn that minumum wage.
The impact of those wages is dealt with immediately by businesess as they are forced to raise prices to pay those minimum wages to their workers....and the cycle begins.
So you are perhaps correct in taking your statement in isolation....but when you actually follow what happens....you see what DV8 and others see....Inflation.....and more of it is coming soon...in January.
Keeping poor people working at poverty wage improves nothing. In fact, quite the opposite. Higher minimum wages allow for more spending and creates more employment.
Raising wages without more is a no win situation. You still have an uneducated workforce who will ultimately pay those higher prices with those wages....and when that happens....the poor are still poor.
Keeping them ignorant and uneducated, as DV8 has also alluded to, is the real problem in the DR.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2