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Positive and normative effects of a minimum wage

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Guillaume Rocheteau
Murat Tasci
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We review the positive and normative effects of a minimum wage in various versions of a search-theoretic model of the labor market.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in its series Working Paper with number 0801.

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Keywords: Minimum wage Labor market

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