An Efficiency Enhancing Minimum Wage

Omer Gokcekus and Edward Tower

No 96-19, Working Papers from Duke University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We consider an economy (e.g. Chile 1973-83 or modern Turkey) with a minimum wage sector and a free sector, and a tax on labor earnings. We ask can a minimum wage hike raise employment and economic efficiency?

JEL-codes: J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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