• Title of article

    Dealing with monopsony power: Employment subsidies vs. minimum wages

  • Author/Authors

    Eric Strobl، نويسنده , , Frank Walsh، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    83
  • To page
    89
  • Abstract
    We show in a monopsony model that accounting for changes in hours a minimum wage has ambiguous effects on employment and welfare. When all workers have the same preference ordering over leisure and consumption employment subsidies unambiguously improve welfare. Many countries have minimum wages and also tax minimum wage workers
  • Keywords
    Monopsony , Minimum wages , hours worked
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436119