@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp3434, author={Kaas, Leo and Madden, Paul}, title={Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony}, year={2008}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={3434}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3434}, abstract={Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue products of workers may differ. Subgame perfect equilibria of the two-stage location-wage game are studied under laissez-faire and under a minimum wage regime. Up to a restriction for the existence of pure strategy equilibria, the imposition of a minimum wage is always welfare-improving because of its effect on non-wage job characteristics.}, keywords={minimum wages;hotelling;duopsony}, }