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标题：Wage discrimination and partial compliance with the minimum wage law
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作者：Yang-Ming Chang ; Bhavneet Walia
期刊名称：Economics Bulletin
电子版ISSN：1545-2921
出版年度：2007
卷号：10
出版社：Economics Bulletin
摘要：This paper presents a simple model to characterize the discriminatory behavior of a non-complying firm in a minimum-wage economy. In the analysis, the violating firm pays one “favored” group of workers the statutory minimum and the other “non-favored” group of workers a sub-minimum. We find conditions under which law enforcement is ineffective in improving the between-group wage differentials. We show that an increase in the minimum wage raises the sub-minimum wage and employment of workers in the non-favored group, but reduces the employment of workers in the favored group. The effect of the minimum wage increase on total employment is unambiguously negative, however.