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Minimum Wages, Technological Progress and Loss of Skill

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This paper considers the effect of a productivity shock when the unemployed worker risks a loss of skill. This divides the workers into short-term and long-term unemployment. In this economy, the short-term unemployed and long-term unemployed in the economy search for employment in the most productive sector and in the antiquated sector, respectively. In this framework, the implications of a shock with a minimum wage law is compared to the implications when wages are perfectly flexible. The economic variables considered are short-term and long-term unemployment, wages and wage disparity, and the equilibrium rate of unemployment.

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  • Larsen, B., 1998. "Minimum Wages, Technological Progress and Loss of Skill," Papers 98-03, Centre for Labour Market and Social Research, Danmark-.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:clmsre:98-03
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    2. Birthe Larsen & Gisela Waisman, 2016. "Labor Market Performance Effects Of Discrimination And Loss Of Skill," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 54(3), pages 1574-1595, July.
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    4. Ejarque, João Miguel, 2009. "A Search Model with a Quasi-Network," Economics Discussion Papers 8932, University of Essex, Department of Economics.
    5. Trine Filges & Birthe Larsen, 2005. "Stick, Carrot and Skill Acquisition," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 107(3), pages 495-519, September.
    6. Larsen, Birthe & Waisman, Gisela, 2007. "Who is hurt by discrimination?," Working Papers 12-2007, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics.
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    10. Julen Esteban-Pretel, 2005. "Loss of Skill and Retraining in a Matching Model," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-353, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.

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    Keywords

    MINIMUM WAGE ; UNEMPLOYMENT;

    JEL classification:

    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General

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