Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43311 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP07/14
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We model a standard competitve 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 change in the number of workers and hours per worker resulting from a minimum wage are inversely related, We also demonstrate that total hours worked at the firm may rise if there are small fixed costs to hiring workers.
Subjects: 
minimum wages
hours
employment
JEL: 
J22
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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