Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52459 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3576
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, we find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages even if the minimum wage is too low to be a binding restriction. Furthermore, raising the minimum wage to a binding level increases the bargained wage above the new minimum wage level. While the Nash solution cannot explain the existence of spillover effects, the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution yields results that are qualitatively more in line with our experimental findings.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
bargaining
Kalai-Smorodinsky solution
labor market experiments
JEL: 
C71
C91
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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