Do reduced labor costs increase employment among minimum wage workers? Evidence from a Swedish payroll tax cut
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Keywords
Retail trade industry; minimum wages; payroll tax reform; natural experiments; collective bargaining;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2023-05-22 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-INV-2023-05-22 (Investment)
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