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Health insurance and the labor market with wage rigidities : insights from a laboratory experiment

Sherstyuk, Katerina; Dorj, Dolgorsuren; Russo, Gerard - 2014

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Spillover effects of minimum wages in experimental wage negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 780-804

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study spillover effects of minimum wages on wages above the minimum. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, the participants sit face-to-face and make alternating offers. We find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages...

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Employment effects of two Northwest minimum wage initiatives

Singell, Larry D.; Terborg, James R. - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 45 (2007) 1, pp. 40-55

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Price floors and employer prefernces : 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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Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment - Erratum

Leigh, Andrew - 2005

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Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Leigh, Andrew - 2004

To estimate the impact of raising the minimum wage on employment, this article uses a natural experiment, arising from six increases in the Western Australian statutory minimum wage during the period 1994-2001. Relative to the rest of Australia, the employment to population ratio in Western...

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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?

Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2020

To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...

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Why is so much redistribution in-kind and not in cash? : evidence from a survey experiment

Liscow, Zachary; Pershing, Abigail - In: National tax journal 75 (2022) 2, pp. 313-354

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In front of and behind the veil of ignorance : an analysis of motivations for redistribution

Bjerk, David - 2016

This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest - namely as insurance …

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Gender and redistribution : experimental evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …

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