Minimum Wages and Excessive Effort Supply
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چکیده
It is well-known that, in static models, minimum wages generate positive worker rents and, consequently, inefficiently low effort. We show that this result does not necessarily extend to a dynamic context. The reason is that, in repeated employment relationships, firms may exploit workers’ future rents to induce excessively high effort.
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