distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income … distribution than statutory minimum wages. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy, similar to the French minimum wage system …

distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages … support our hypothesis, as employees with low wages have significantly lower local wage flexibility than high wage employees …. This effect is particularly relevant for the lower educational groups. On the other hand, employees with low wages tend to …