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Minimum Wage Incidence: The Case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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Minimum Wages and their Alternatives: A Critical Assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094296
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Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution
Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2014
and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …
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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013
We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …
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Top Incomes, Rising Inequality, and Welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - CESifo - 2012
This paper develops a general-equilibrium model of skill-biased technological change that approximates the observed shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic assumptions, we find that all agents can benefit from the...
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Normative Analysis with Societal Constraints
Boadway, Robin; Martineau, Nicolas-Guillaume - CESifo - 2013
driven both by the material incentives and heterogeneous preferences for leisure of each skill class, and an endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877788
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Deserving Poor and the Desirability of Minimum Wage Rules
Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2014
In this paper we provide a novel justification for the use of minimum wage rules to supplement the optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage rule can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877848
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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - CESifo - 2013
. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877914
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David E. - CESifo - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877955
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Centralized Fiscal Spending by Supranational Unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin Mattias - CESifo - 2013
occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and generically causes inefficiency. Interestingly, redistribution arises …
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