Browsing by Subject "Employment subsidies"

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Dealing with monopsony power : employment subsidies vs. minimum wages

Walsh, Frank ; Strobl, Eric (Elsevier Science, 2007)

We show in a monopsony model that accounting for changes in hours a minimum wage has ambiguous effects on employment and welfare. When all workers have the same preference ordering over leisure and consumption employment ...
Two papers on supply-side employment policies

Barry, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-08)

In the first of these papers, Taxation and the Choice of Employment Policy, the taxation required to finance a programme of labour-subsidisation is shown to be less than that associated with investment subsidies when ...