Women are heavily underrepresented in management positions. This paper investigates if there is state dependence in the share of female manager hires in German plants to assess if increased female representation in management positions is sustainable. Using administrative data from the...

This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find that having a low-wage job increases the probability of being low-paid and decreases the chances of being...

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level of the year 2000. We assess the role of the national minimum wage introduced in 2015. Unconditional quantile regressions combined with difference-indifferences show significant...

Zur Vorbereitung des Jahresgutachtens 2019/2020 des Sachverständigenrats zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung wurde das IAB um seine Expertise zum gesetzlichen Mindestlohn in Bezug auf den Grad der Einhaltung und zu potenziellen Beschäftigungseffekten in einer Rezession...

Das IAB wurde gebeten zu dem Referentenentwurf (des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales) einesGesetzes zur Erhöhung des Schutzes durch den gesetzlichenMindestlohn (Mindestlohnerhöhungsgesetz - MiLoEG) Stellung zu nehmen. Mit dem Gesetz soll die im Koalitionsvertrag vereinbarte...

Using the PASS survey, I analyze the relationship between employment and self-efficacy. Estimating a dynamic model which takes into account reverse causality and selection on unobservables, I show that employment positively affects self-efficacy and vice versa. Hence, changes in the personal...

Empirical evaluations of national minimum wages, such as in Germany or the UK, rely on bite measures that capture treatment variation; measured from the incidence (or intensity) of employees paid below the threshold before the minimum wage was introduced or raised. Bite-dependent estimations...

We provide difference-in-differences evidence from Germany on the effect of deregulating weekday shop opening hours on employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop...

In Germany a new statutory minimum wage of € 8.50 per hour of work was introduced on 1 January 2015. We identify employment effects using variation in the establishment-level affectedness. The data allow addressing anticipatory wage adjustments as well as spillover effects within and across...