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. …

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 …

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 …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income … distribution than statutory minimum wages. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy, similar to the French minimum wage system …