, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …

employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor …

Labor market studies on the effects of minimum wages are typically confined to the sector or worker group directly … wages. In such a framework, setting a minimum wage in the unproductive sector to reduce the wage gap causes a negative … enhancing due to the possibility of an above optimal level of productive employment since firms do not take into account the …

. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in response to cost-push shocks depend - in theoretically sensible ways - on the … that the pass-through is lower in highly competitive firms. Furthermore, a high degree of employment protection and …