Minimum Wages in Austria: Estimation of Employment Functions

Christian Ragacs

No 20, Department of Economics Working Paper Series from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Abstract: Minimum wages in Austria are bargaining results between labour unions and entrepreneurs. This paper analyses the empirical effects of minimum wages ("Kollektivvertragslöhne") on employment. "Employment functions", based on a "neo-classical" partial analytic framework, are estimated. The empirical analysis that is done for aggregated Austrian industry and specific branches at first sight seems to support the standard theoretical thesis. In addition, problems caused by the used method, which may occur in similar studies too, are shown. They give rise to the possibility that models of this kind are misspecified.

Date: 1993-06
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