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Minimum wage incidence: the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 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 - 2008
issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage … in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264515
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Marginal employment subsidization: a new concept and a reappraisal
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2006
Germany, we show that employment can be substantially increased without imposing additional fiscal burden. …
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