worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity …This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … the minimum wage cuts deep into the wage distribution. I show that gradually implementing a high minimum wage is necessary …

recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm training to the overall stock of worker human capital. We engage with … debates related to firm training, including training taxes, training subsidies, non-compete agreements, and the minimum wage …

This paper evaluates the worker-level effects of a historically large and permanent increase in the minimum wage in … Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers' exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact … that there has been no increase in the minimum wage in previous years, to account for heterogeneous labor market prospects …