with high likelihood of being outsourced. And, when comparing wages of direct and outsourced employees, it is possible to … notice that outsourced (with high likelihood) face a decrease in their wages, in most of the situations examined. …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …

basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …