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The Effect of Minimum Wage Legislation on Income Equality

其他書名	A Theoretical Analysis
出版	Center for Economic Analysis of Human Behavior and Social Institutions, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1977
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e3JZAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Minimum wage legislation is frequently advocated in the belief that itcreates a more nearly equal distribution of income. A one-sector model of general equilibrium is used to analyze a universally applicable minimum wage, and a two-sector model is used to analyze a minimum wage that is only applied to certain industries. In both cases we find that a minimum wage may well lower equality (as computed by the Gini index) if we consider reasonable values for the parameters of these two models. In the absence of unemployment compensation, equality can increase only if the elasticity of substitution in production is quite low. In the one-sector case, however, equality necessarily rises if unemployment compensation is present and sufficiently generous.