The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

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 suffi...

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Volume:	124
Main Author:	Brown, Alessio J.G Merkl, Christian Snower, Dennis J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	LAUSANNE Elsevier B.V 01.09.2014 ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
published in:	Economics letters Vol. 124; no. 3; pp. 389 - 391
ORCID:	0000-0001-5882-5281
Data of publication:	September 2014
ISSN:	0165-1765 1873-7374
EISSN:	1873-7374
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Minimum wage Labor market Employment Unemployment Job offer Job acceptance Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Wages Labor market Employment J2 J3 Minimum wage J6 Unemployment Job offer Job acceptance
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS