Minimum Wages and Employment
ISBN:
9781349517565
Auflage:
1st ed. 2004
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
08.06.2004
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
191
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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.
Biografische Anmerkung
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.
