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Mitte April hat die Arbeitsgruppe „Arbeitslosenhilfe/Sozialhilfe“ der Kommission zur Reform der Gemeindefinanzen ihren Bericht zur Zusammenlegung von Arbeitslosenhilfe und Sozialhilfe vorgelegt. Kann die Beschäftigung durch die Zusammenlegung erhöht werden? Welche finanziellen Folgen...
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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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Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
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