Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labour Market Concentration

We find that in labour markets that are more concentrated or less densely populated, minimum wage increases lead to overall positive employment effects.

While increases in the minimum wage are found to significantly decrease employment of workers in low concentration markets, minimum wage-induced ...

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MINIMUM WAGE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS AND LABOR MARKET CONCENTRATION. José Azar. Emiliano Huet-Vaughn. Ioana Marinescu. Bledi Taska. Till von Wachter. Working Paper ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

This paper shows that more highly concentrated labor markets experience more positive employment effects of the minimum wage.

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labour Market Concentration

Abstract. This paper shows that more highly concentrated labour markets experience more positive employment effects of the minimum wage. In the most concen.

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

While increases in the minimum wage are found to significantly decrease employment of workers in low concentration markets, minimum wage-induced employment ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labour Market Concentration

This paper shows that more highly concentrated labour markets experience more positive employment effects of the minimum wage. In the most concentrated ...

Study: Increasing minimum wage has positive effects on employment

In labor markets where employers have more control over wages, increasing the minimum wage often results in a rise in employment, ...

The Minimum Wage and the Labor Market

In this case, a minimum wage increases employment by mitigating the negative effects of a monopsony's power. All workers gain: More of them have jobs, and those ...

The employment effects of minimum wage across heterogenous ...

Intuitively, the bargaining power of workers decreases when labour market concentration increases. δ = 1 − L. We use the bargaining coefficient to combine the ...

Employment effects of minimum wages | IZA World of Labor

A second study looks at changes in labor market outcomes at ages when the UK minimum wage changes—at 18 and 22—and finds a negative effect at age 18 and at age ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

Minimum Wage Employment Effects Vary By Labor Market Concentration. A 10% rise in the minimum wage boosts employment by ~3.5% in highly concentrated markets ...

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

Using the Herfi ndahl-Hirschman index (HHI) 2 as an indicator of labour market concentration, it has been found that in more concentrated labour ...

Minimum Wage Shocks, Employment Flows, and Labor Market ...

We find that minimum wages have a sizable negative effect on employment flows but not on stocks. Separations and accessions fall among affected workers.

Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor Markets | IZA

Sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightly concentrated or more competitive labor markets. This effect weakens with increasing ...

Wages, hires, and labor market concentration - ScienceDirect.com

This negative effect was found to be robust across specifications. Furthermore, we find some evidence that the effects of labor market concentration are less ...

The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage

The reasons for the elusive employment effect are the factors contributing to why the link between higher minimum wages and higher labor costs are weaker than ...

The Minimum Wage in Competitive Markets and Markets

José Azar and others, Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration,. Working Paper 26101 (National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2019) ...

Boosting wages when U.S. labor markets are not competitive

When labor market concentration is high and competition is low, employers are underpaying workers even though firms can afford to pay their ...

Minimum wage effects across heterogeneous markets - ScienceDirect

In a simple competitive labor market model, employers have little control over wages and reduce employment levels immediately with an increase in the minimum ...