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Autore |
Flinn Christopher J |
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Titolo |
The minimum wage and labor market outcomes [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher J. Flinn |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-28876-1 |
1-283-02008-4 |
9786613020086 |
0-262-28939-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Minimum wage |
Labor market |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Descriptive evidence on minimum wage effects -- A model of minimum wage effects on labor market careers -- Labor market and welfare impacts of minimum wages -- Minimum wage effects on labor market outcomes : a selective survey -- Assessing the welfare impacts of actual changes in the minimum wage -- Econometric issues -- Model estimates and tests -- Optimal minimum wages. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Christopher Flinn presents an introduction to a search & bargaining model that can be used to assess the welfare effects of minimum wage changes & to determine an 'optimal' minimum wage. |
"The development of the model and the econometric theory underlying its estimation are carefully presented so as to enable readers unfamiliar with the econometrics of point process models and dynamic optimization in continuous time to follow the arguments. Although most of the book focuses on the case where only the unemployed search for jobs in a homogeneous labor market environment, later chapters introduce on-the-job search into the model, and explore its implications for minimum wage policy. The book also contains a |
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