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Article dans une revue Economics Letters Année : 2010

Layoff taxes and minimum wage: Two complementary public policies

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In a matching model in which the job destruction rate and the output are endogenous, we show that the presence of a binding minimum wage prompts firms to choose too risky jobs. Introducing layoff taxes therefore reduces unemployment and improves market efficiency.
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halshs-00545212, version 1 (09-12-2010)

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Frédéric Gavrel, Isabelle Lebon, Thérèse Rebière. Layoff taxes and minimum wage: Two complementary public policies. Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (1), pp.30-32. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2009.12.016⟩. ⟨halshs-00545212⟩
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