Burauel, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 49, pp. 509-522
wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the … reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly wages in the lowest decile, the bottom tenth of the pay distribution, was … still earned contractual hourly wages below this level. In 2015, the count was approximately 2.1 million workers, and in the …