in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum … subsidies, the government can ensure more favorable employment and income effects. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy …

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 …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

shown that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes … firing costs and unemployment benefits are independent of redundancy pay, employment and welfare will rise with redundancy … payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages, positive employment effects will be mitigated. A …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcingactivities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …