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.

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Increasing minimum wage has positive effects on employment, says ...

In the most concentrated labor markets, the authors found that employment rises following a minimum wage increase. This research provides ...

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 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 ...

Increasing minimum wage has positive effects on employment

The findings reveal that in less competitive job markets where employers have more wage-setting power, and tend to pay workers less, there is ...

Minimum wage effects across heterogeneous markets - ScienceDirect

The extent of market power in the labor market is an important topic in testing the employment effect of the minimum wage. In a simple competitive labor market ...

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.

Non-Monotonic Employment Effects by Market Structure and ...

Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours worked for minimum wage workers (MWWs) in high-concentration local labour markets (LLMs), while ...

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

Increasing workers' bargaining power by strengthening unions can counteract the effects of employers' market power and increase wages. Similarly ...

Minimum wage effects across heterogeneous markets - CEPR

... labour markets where employers had less ... Minimum wage employment effects and labor market concentration", NBER working paper 26101.

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),.