Minimum Wages and Employment: Static and Dynamic Non-Market Cleaning Equilibrium Models
By Christian Ragacs.
Description
Christian Ragacs develops new contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical models are developed; two of them comparative static in nature and two models of endogenous growth. The results are contradictory--partly supporting the "textbook" theory and partly yielding unorthodox results, such as no change in the steady state rates of growth and employment. - fro...
ISBN(s)
1403934983, 9781403934987