Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183266 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1807
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
When discussing the employment effects of minimum wages, mainstream economic discussion as well as mainstream economics textbooks mainly center around two variations of the neoclassical model: the model of the competitive and the monopsonistic labor market. The current paper offers a different perspective: it provides an assessment of the broader variety of existing theories and develops a new theoretical account which integrates these different views. For the comparison as well as for the later integration of these theories, it draws on an evolutionary economic concept: a micro-meso-macro framework. Here it shows that due to its simple structure and conceptual flexibility, the micro-meso-macro framework is very well suited to the task of integrating these different theoretical visions as well as assessing their evolutionary features. It follows from the analysis that from a theoretical viewpoint, the effect of the minimum wage on employment is indeed ambiguous, which is perfectly in line with the existing empirical evidence.
JEL: 
B52
E12
J30
J42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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