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We analyze the price pass-through effect of the minimum wage and use the results to provide insight into the competitive structure of low-wage labor markets. Using monthly price series, we find that the pass-through effect is entirely concentrated on the month that the minimum wage change goes...
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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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This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers …' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into … profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective …
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This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers …' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into … profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective …
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Diskussion rund um den Mindestlohn und für die Einordnung der Ergebnisse des oft zitierten Beitrages von Card und Krueger (1994 …) von Bedeutung zu sein. -- Arbeitsmarkt ; Monopson ; Substitutionselastizität und Ausbeutungsgrad …The market forms of monopsony/oligopsony are about the only ones where the introduction of minimum wages goes along …
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We study a labor market where firm have private information about their ex-ante heterogeneous productivities and search is random. In this environment, a binding minimum wage can be efficiency-enhancing -- we show that setting it using a version of the Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism delivers...
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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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What is the economic case for increasing the federal minimum wage?To even posit that question sounds odd. Proponents of a higher minimum wage claim that the policy change could alleviate all sorts of economic and social ills. But it's worth assessing, from first principles, the economic...
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