What effect would this increase in the minimum wage have on unemployment? Does the change in unemployment depend on the elasticity of demand, the elasticity of supply, both elasticities, or neither?
Read the case “The Minimum Wage” from Chapter 6 “Supply, Demand, and Government Policies” Page: – 117 given in your textbook – “Principles of Macroeconomics”. A case study discusses the federal minimum-wage law. Questions: 1 Suppose the minimum wage is above the equilibrium wage in the market for unskilled labor. Using a supply and-demand diagram […]