[Einleitung] Die Corona-Pandemie und die Maßnahmen zu ihrer Bekämpfung haben seit Beginn des ersten Lockdowns im März 2020 die deutsche Wirtschaft und den Arbeitsmarkt vor gewaltige Herausforderungen gestellt. War Arbeitslosigkeit im Angesicht des kontinuierlichen Wirtschaftswachstums und...

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...

In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effects of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...