.S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects …

This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of … employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are …

between wages and profits, and for production and trade patterns in a two-country world …

wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international …

skilled wage and unskilled wage. Such a mechanism exists and is independent of whether the tax is progressive or proportional …