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Folgen der Mindestlohn auf die Beschäftigung und die Lohnentwicklung haben wird. Der Anpassungsdruck in Ostdeutschland wird …
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Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...
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Ein allgemeiner, gesetzlicher Mindestlohn ist nach den Bundestagswahlen 2013 ein ganz wichtiges politisches Thema in … Deutschland. So macht die SPD vor den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit den Unionsparteien die Einführung einer branchenübergreifenden …, dass sich die SPD mit ihren Forderungen durchsetzt und Mindestlöhne in Deutschland demnächst per Gesetz eingeführt werden. …
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Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of wage theft -- wage payments below the statutory minimum wage -- falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find...
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The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
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Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when...
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We use wage data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS MORG) to study the effect of state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks...
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Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...
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Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation correlated with economic shocks generates spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs sharing a state border, they find no relationship...
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