Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215092 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8090
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production structure of a small open economy with a non-traded good, without taking any recourse to monopsony, spatial heterogeneity, heterogeneity of consumers etc. the usual theoretical drivers behind the result. Following Jones and Marjit (1992) we build up a simple general equilibrium model with complementary relationship in production and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage hike may be consistent with the overall expansion of the export sector in a multi good framework, an unlikely outcome in a conventional two good models which cannot accommodate complementary relationship in production.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
employment
non-traded good
JEL: 
J20
J30
F11
F16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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