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Price Floors and Employer Preferences : Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

Horton, John J. - 2017

Minimum hourly wages were randomly imposed on firms posting job openings in an online labor market. A higher minimum wage raised the wages of hired workers substantially. However, there was some reduction in hiring and large reductions in hours-worked. Treated firms hired more productive...

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The Regional Effects of a National Minimum Wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from 2011 to 2016 and a difference‐in‐differences based...

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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages

Link, Sebastian - 2021

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically insignificant. In contrast, affected firms increased prices much...

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Labor Unions, Globalization, and Mercantilism

Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - CESifo - 2009

We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...

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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals

Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2010

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...

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Unemployment Effects of the German Minimum Wage in an Equilibrium Job Search Model

Blömer, Maximilian - 2020

-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...

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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Danziger, Eliav - 2018

welfare by increasing the low-productivity workers' consumption and bringing it closer to the first-best. The paper also … government's revenue needs, the social-welfare weight of low-productivity workers, and the numbers and productivities of the …

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage

Danziger, Eliav - 2014

improvement over what can be achieved with an optimal income tax. The reason is that a graduated minimum wage requires high-productivity … workers to work more to earn the same income as low-productivity workers, which makes it more difficult for the former to … mimic the latter. In effect, a graduated minimum wage allows the low-productivity workers to benefit from second …

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