Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy
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- Petri Böckerman & Toni Juuti & Tuomas Kosonen & Henri Keränen, 2024. "Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy," Working Papers 348, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE.
- Böckerman, Petri & Juuti, Toni & Kosonen, Tuomas & Keränen, Henri, 2024. "Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy," Working Papers 169, VATT Institute for Economic Research.
- Böckerman, Petri & Juuti, Toni & Kosonen, Tuomas & Keränen, Henri, 2024. "Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy," IZA Discussion Papers 17453, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Keywords
Minimum wages; subminimum wage; wage determination; fairness; employment; firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
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