What Happens When the Minimum Wage Rises? It Depends on Monetary Policy

Andrew Glover and Jose Mustre-del-Rio

Economic Review, 2021, vol. 106, issue no.3, 5-24

Abstract: Andrew Glover and José Mustre-del-Río examine how monetary policy may amplify or dampen the response of employment and inflation to an increase in the minimum wage. Their model-based analysis suggests a minimum wage increase has expansionary effects on the economy if the central bank is relatively unresponsive to current inflation, and contractionary effects if the central bank responds more aggressively (more than one-for-one) to current inflation. More generally, their framework suggests that if an increase in the minimum wage engenders contractionary effects, the central bank can mitigate these effects by allowing inflation to rise by more than the nominal interest rate.

Keywords: Minimum Wage; Monetary Policy; Inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E59 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.18651/ER/v106n3GloverMustredelRio

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