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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets
Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-28
employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony … States under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous … effects among different scenarios derived from the monopsony model, and provide a plausible explanation of the mixed results …
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Labor market effects of minimum wage shocks
Micheli, Martin - 2019
The theoretical literature argues that labor markets outcomes are affected by real minimum wages. Real minimum wages, however, co-move with the business cycle; their correlation with labor market outcomes should therefore not be interpreted causally. We employ structural vector autoregression to...
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Did the 2008 minimum wage increase in Curaçao affect epmplement?
Rigaud, Christopher M. - 2023
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Monopsony power, offshoring, and a European minimum wage
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Wrona, Jens - 2024
This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting part of the production abroad reduces local labour...
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It is real : on the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers
Micheli, Martin - 2019
This paper reexamines the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers in the US. Economic theory suggests that real minimum wages drive labor market outcomes. Instead of the commonly used nominal minimum wages, we therefore use real minimum wages to examine this...
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It is real : on the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers
Micheli, Martin - 2020
This paper reexamines the relation between minimum wages and labor market outcomes for teenagers in the US. Economic theory suggests that real minimum wages drive labor market outcomes. Instead of the commonly used nominal minimum wages, we therefore use real minimum wages to examine this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435549
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on the Nonprofit Sector
Meer, Jonathan; Tajali, Hedieh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The nonprofit sector's ability to absorb increases in labor costs differs from the private sector in a number of ways. We analyze how nonprofits are affected by changes in the minimum wage utilizing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Internal Revenue Service, linked to state...
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Employment effects of state legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrant workers
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2012
We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was to limit unauthorized workers' economic opportunities as a way to deter further illegal...
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Employment Effects of State Legislation Against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers
Bohn, Sarah - 2012
We analyze the impact of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on employment outcomes of low-skilled Arizona workers, with a focus on the states' unauthorized population. The intent of LAWA was to limit unauthorized workers' economic opportunities as a way to deter further illegal...
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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 84 (2012) 1, pp. 245-264
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