Showing 1 - 10 of 10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001689877
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001524352
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001256118
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814613
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814706
This study provides ex-post evidence on the redistributive impact of the minimumwage on disposable household incomes in Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage introduction, the distributional literature for Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848958
The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184451
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204432
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190305