The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

C-Tier
Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2014
Volume: 124
Issue: 3
Pages: 389-391

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment, since their job-offer disincentives are countervailed by their job-acceptance incentives.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecolet:v:124:y:2014:i:3:p:389-391
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-24