Endogenous monopsony and the perverse effect of the minimum wage in small firms

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 224-229

  Danziger, Leif ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous monopsony; Minimum wage; Noncompliance; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549091695     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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