Browsing School of Economics by Subject "J38"

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The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)

We model a standard competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the ...
The minimum wage and hours per worker

Strobl, Eric ; Walsh, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-10)

In a competitive model we ease the assumption that efficiency units of labour are the product of hours and workers. We show that a minimum wage may either increase or decrease hours per worker and the change will have ...