Assistant Professor of Economics @McMasterU | Green Bay Packers Enthusiast
Feb 11, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
An (updated) draft of my job market paper is now available as a @McMasterEcon working paper. The paper has theoretical and empirical parts and studies the desirability of the minimum wage in a setting where policy makers have access to other instruments, notably income taxes 1/n
This question seems to be getting attention from policy makers so allow me to briefly explain what I do in the paper. First, I derive a formula for the marginal welfare gain from introducing a minimum wage in a setting with hetereogeneous individuals and search frictions 2/n
