ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: W. M. Keck Observatory, Competitive Equilibrium, Monopsony

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At high wages, many people want to work, but fewer firms want to hire. At low wages, few people want to work but many firms would like to hire. Minimum wage does not have to be binding. Not legal to pay medical doctor 7. 25 per hour, however there are not likely any doctors who would be willing to work for less. The equilibrium wage is higher that the minimum in this case. The unconstrained equilibrium wage could be lower than minimum wage. The argument that most makes against higher wage laws is that this standard theory predicts higher unemployment rates when the minimum wage is increased. Clinton signed into a law a minimum wage hike from . 25 to . 15. What followed was not the increase in unemployment the standard models predicted. There was a different effect after the housing bubble crash in 2007. Firms recovered relatively quickly in terms of their financial prospects, stock prices, etc.

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