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Dealing with monopsony power: Employment subsidies vs. minimum wages

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  • Eric Strobl

    (X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

  • Frank Walsh

    (School of Economics - UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin])

Abstract

We show in a monopsony model that accounting for changes in hours a minimum wage has ambiguous effects on employment and welfare. When all workers have the same preference ordering over leisure and consumption employment subsidies unambiguously improve welfare. Many countries have minimum wages and also tax minimum wage workers.
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  • Eric Strobl & Frank Walsh, 2007. "Dealing with monopsony power: Employment subsidies vs. minimum wages," Post-Print hal-00395607, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00395607
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    1. Danziger, Eliav & Danziger, Leif, 2018. "The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare," IZA Discussion Papers 11386, IZA Network @ LISER.
    2. Yang, Zhengxiong & Liu, Mingwei & Zhang, Shiwei & Yin, Chenxi, 2024. "The effects of monthly minimum wages on the labor market," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    3. Laszlo Goerke & Michael Neugart, 2021. "Social preferences, monopsony and government intervention," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 54(2), pages 864-891, May.
    4. Eric Strobl & Frank Walsh, 2010. "The minimum wage and hours per worker," Working Papers 201028, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    5. Eric Strobl & Frank Walsh, 2007. "The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours," Working Papers 200714, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    6. Eliav Danziger & Leif Danziger, 2018. "The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare," CESifo Working Paper Series 6943, CESifo.
    7. Strobl, Eric & Walsh, Frank, 2011. "The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on hours," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 218-228, April.
    8. Danziger, Eliav & Danziger, Leif, 2018. "The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare," GLO Discussion Paper Series 188, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    9. Peng-Ju Su, Alice, 2020. "Information advantage and minimum wage," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 50(C).
    10. Cai Yujie & Li Xiuyu & Tao Yuhong, 2020. "Comparative Analysis of Minimum Wage in Five Provinces in Northwest China," International Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(1), pages 1-1, January.

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    JEL classification:

    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
    • J48 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Particular Labor Markets; Public Policy

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