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Participation, recruitment selection, and the minimum wage

Gavrel, Frédéric - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 117 (2015) 4, pp. 1281-1305

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Participation, Recruitment Selection, and the Minimum Wage

Gavrel, Frederic - HAL - 2014

This paper reexamines the e ciency of participation with heterogeneous workers in a search-matching model with … bargained wages and free entry. As- suming that rms hire their best applicants, we state that participation is insu cient … receive the entire output. As a consequence, introducing a (small) minimum wage raises participation, job creation, and …

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Is the Formal Sector too Large or too Small? A Reexamination of Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Gavrel, Frédéric - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011

This paper reexamines the issue of the division of the labor force between the two sub-markets (formal and informal) of a developing economy. The formal sector is represented by a matching model with vertically differentiated workers. Assuming that firms hire their best applicants, we state that...

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Offshoring, Mismatch, and Labor Market Outcomes

Arseneau, David M.; Epstein, Brendan - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

We study the role of labor market mismatch in the adjustment to a trade liberalization that results in the offshoring of high-tech production. Our model features two-sided heterogeneity in the labor market: high- and low-skilled workers are matched in a frictional labor market with high- and...

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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and financial constraints in firms

Arabzadeh, Hamzeh; Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; … - 2023

This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We...

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