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

ISBN-13: 9781349517565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 191 str.

C. Ragacs

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: ON THEORY AND METHODOLOGY An Inquiry into the Theory of Minimum Wages Minimum Wages and "General Equilibrium": Methodological Problems PART II: MINIMUM WAGES AND COMPARATIVE STATICS Supporting the Partial Equilibrium Results Minimum Wages, Unemployment and the Creation of Human Capital PART III: MINIMUM WAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Minimum Wages, Human Capital and Growth Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Growth Conclusions

O autorze

CHRISTIAN RAGACS is Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economic and Business Administration. He teaches courses on economic policy, micro- and macroeconomics and economic growth. He received the Theodor-Körner prize for his contribution to growth policy in 1997. His fields of research are economic growth and labour economics.