There may be natural limits on the efficiency losses engendered by labor market regulations, although such costs could be significant in some countries at some times.Squire and Suthiwart-Narueput investigate the impact of labor market regulations in settings where compliance is incomplete. They...

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...

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...

The available estimations about the effect of minimum wage on poverty relies on partial equilibrium analysis. We estimate these effects in Brazil through a general equilibrium framework, dealing with lots of indirect effects of minimum wage. Using a computable general equilibrium model we...

This paper casts doubt on the positive effects so often claimed for the recently-introduced national minimum wage by its many supporters. It attacks the notion of the minimum wage as a "free lunch," arguing that its effects are often either negative or simply unknown. Those worst affected by its...

I analyze the spillover effects of publicly announced sectoral minimum wages in Germany. My identification strategy exploits exposure to sectoral minimum wages across workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector in a triple differences estimation. Subminimum wage workers in related...