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This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We...
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to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition. …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …
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