Minimum Wages and Employment Static and Dynamic Non-Market-Clearing Equilibrium Models

Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical mod...

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Main Author: Ragacs, Christian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2004, 2004
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical models are developed; two of them comparative static in nature and two models of endogenous growth. The results are contradictory - partly supporting the 'textbook' theory and partly yielding unorthodox results, such as no change in the steady state rates of growth and employment
Physical Description:XII, 191 p online resource
ISBN:9780230596276