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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage

Danziger, Leif - 2006

increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor …

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The elasticity of labor demand and the minimum wage

Danziger, Leif - In: Journal of population economics 22 (2009) 3, pp. 757-772

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The elasticity of labor demand and the optimal minimum wage

Danziger, Leif (contributor) - 2006

increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor …

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The elasticity of labor demand and the minimum wage

Danziger, Leif (contributor) - 2007

increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor demand so that …. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in … rate be decreased. -- Elasticity of labor demand ; minimum wage …

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Minimum wages and spatial equilibrium : theory and evidence

Monras, Joan - 2015

decrease in population depending on the local labor demand elasticity and on how unemployment benefits are financed. The paper … wages and decreases in employment. The low-skilled local labor demand elasticity is estimated to be above 1, which in the …

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Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence

Monras, Joan - 2015

decrease in population depending on the local labor demand elasticity and on how unemployment benefits are financed.The paper … wages and decreases in employment. The low-skilled local labor demand elasticity is estimated to be above 1, which in the …

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The minimum wage in a state union with unemployment insurance

Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2025

background of unemployment insurance. We find that unemployment insurance is always efficiently organized by decentral decisions … be shown to be generically inefficient because the decision makers either externalize the cost of unemployment via the …

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Earnings responses to social security contributions

Neumann, Michael - 2015

This paper exploits discontinuities induced by earnings caps for social security contributions (SSC) in Germany to analyse the effect of SSC on gross labour earnings. Empirical evidence is based on two complementary approaches utilising two administrative data sets. First, employment responses...

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Payroll, revenue, and labor demand effects of the minimum wage

Jardim, Ekaterina; Van Inwegen, Emma - 2019

We study the impact of the minimum wage hike in Seattle from $9.47 to $13 on wagebill, labor demand, and firm revenue using administrative data from the state of Washington. We show that the minimum wage affected businesses both at the intensive and extensive margins. At the intensive margin,...

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Noncompliance and the effects of the minimum wage on hours and welfare in competitive labor markets

Danziger, Leif - 2009

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...

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