an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

contributions (SSC) in Germany. Following Alvaredo et al. (2016) we exploit kinks in the budget set generated by a drop in the … reforms. Applying the approach to administrative data for West Germany facilitates a comprehensive incidence analysis between …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage … introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on …

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated …