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Can a Non-Binding Minimum Wage Reduce Wages and Employment?

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  • Sofia Bauducco
  • Alexandre Janiak

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We show that, in the large-firm search model (e.g. Cahuc et al. (2008)), a minimum wage may reduce employment even when the level of the introduced minimum wage lies below the equilibrium wage of the laisser-faire economy. The argument is based on multiple equilibria and the idea that, in a large-firm context, the representative firm may choose to overemploy workers in order to renegotiate lower wages.

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  • Sofia Bauducco & Alexandre Janiak, 2015. "Can a Non-Binding Minimum Wage Reduce Wages and Employment?," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 756, Central Bank of Chile.
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