id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pg15bc41f0q Trung Duong Minh Ly Essays in Macro-Labor Economics 2019 .txt text/plain 573 16 40 I show that a model with a binding minimum wage delivers lower Nash-bargained wages than one without that feature, and higher minimum wages negatively affect wages of those for whom the minimum wage is not binding. This finding helps explain why inequality falls as the minimum wage increases: wages are less dispersed because higher wage floors compress the wage distribution both from the bottom and from the top, i.e. they raise the wages of those at the bottom of the wage distribution and lower the wages of workers who earn the most in the economy. cache/pg15bc41f0q.txt txt/pg15bc41f0q.txt