Labour Economics Lab — Search, Matching, Minimum Wage Effects

Stand in the shoes of a Costarian Ministry of Labour strategy team. Run the textbook competitive labour-market model side by side with the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search-and-matching framework, layer in monopsony, confront the empirical record (Card & Krueger 1994, Cengiz et al. 2019, Schmieder-vWB 2016, Card-Kluve-Weber 2018, Manning 2003, Card 2022 AER), and assemble a defensible policy package across minimum wage, UI design, ALMPs, antitrust, and gig-economy classification.