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. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in …
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"Contrary to widespread belief, we show that low-pay workers might not generally prefer that the minimum wage rate be increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand such that increases in the minimum wage rate...
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This paper jointly considers the impact of the minimum wage on both labor and product markets using detailed store-level scanner data. I provide empirical evidence that a 10% increase in the minimum wage raises grocery store prices by 0.6%-0.8%, and suggest that the minimum wage not only raises...
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idiosyncratic productivity shocks. This causes aggregate job turnover to rise, and thereby tends to raise unemployment. Second, this … turnover, unemployment, and welfare. I show that a 10 percentage point reduction in import tariffs combined with a 12 percent … reduction in the iceberg trade cost raises job turnover and unemployment (in steady state) by roughly 8 and 17 percent …
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Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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