The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
10 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2014
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Date Written: June 25, 2014
Abstract
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 sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment, since their job-offer disincentives are countervailed by their job-acceptance incentives.
Keywords: minimum wage, labor market, employment, unemployment, job offer, job acceptance
JEL Classification: J30, J60, J20
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