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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2020

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

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The price and employment response of firms to the introduction of minimum wages

Link, Sebastian - 2019

Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data

Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021

When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...

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Employment and reallocation effects of higher minimum wages

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model …

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The regional effects of a national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2018 - Version: February 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in … 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from …

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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths : beware of spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

Blömer, Maximilian J.; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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Minimum wage and firm variety

Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2021

Exploiting minimum-wage variation within multi-state commuting zones, we document a negative relationship between minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail-trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a heterogeneous-firm model with a monopsonistic labor market...

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