The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence

被引：34

作者：

Lang, K ^{[1
]}

Kahn, S ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Boston Univ, Dept Econ, Boston, MA 02215 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 1998年 / 69卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

minimum wages; search; unemployment;

D O I：

10.1016/S0047-2727(97)00085-6

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Recent research casts doubt on the view that minimum-wage laws reduce employment. We show that in a simple model of bilateral search with heterogeneous workers, a minimum-wage law increases employment. However, the increased competition from higher productivity workers makes lower productivity workers worse off without making higher productivity workers better off. We provide evidence that minimum-wage laws shift employment from adults to teenagers and students. This raises concerns about the distributional consequences of minimum wages even when they increase employment. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A.

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页码：67 / 82

页数：16