Macroeconomic Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in an Economy with Wage Underreporting
Journal Title: Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 246
Abstract
I have built a monetary DSGE model to investigate how wage underreporting in an economy characterized by a minimum wage regime affects the macroeconomic response to a minimum wage increase. The model is calibrated and estimated for Ukraine. The main result is that under a higher degree of wage underreporting, the economy is less responsive to a minimum wage shock. Quantitatively, the magnitude of the response to a minimum wage shock is affected by the share of non-Ricardian households, that is, households that do not have access to financial markets and consequently consume all of their income each period.
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Anastasiia Antonova
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- DOI 10.26531/vnbu2018.246.010
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