Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful

13 Pages Posted: 22 Apr 2009

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Ronnie Schöb

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Freie Universitaet Berlin

Marcel P. Thum

Dresden University of Technology - Faculty of Economics and Business Management; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute; Institute for Corruption Studies

Date Written: April 2009

Abstract

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.

Keywords: minimum wages, unemployment, asymmetric information, labour market regulation

JEL Classification: J2, J3, H5, L5

Suggested Citation

Schöb, Ronnie and Schöb, Ronnie and Thum, Marcel, Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful (April 2009). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2623, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392169 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1392169

Ronnie Schöb

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Freie Universitaet Berlin ( email )

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Marcel Thum (Contact Author)

Dresden University of Technology - Faculty of Economics and Business Management ( email )

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Germany

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute ( email )

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Germany

Institute for Corruption Studies

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Normal, IL 61790-4200
United States

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