This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of … on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum … wages and for workers with low education and experience. That is, the minimum wage tends to protect native workers from …

In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and … of training intensity. Second, firmspecific unions, through raising relative wages and reducing turnover, can increase …

labor supply curve, growing firms did not have to raise their wages in order to hire more workers. The finding of negligible …

paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …