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Addison, John T. - 1998

The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...

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Do public works programs work? : some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individuallevel panel data....

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Advantage through training? : a microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1998

We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active labour market programme (ALMP) participation between January...

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation...

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The incidence of an earned income tax credit : evaluating the impact on wage in the UK

Azmat, Ghazala Yasmeen (contributor) - 2006

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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009

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Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und Mindestlöhnen : zur Reform des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

analysiert. Studien zum Mindestlohn im Baugewerbe und Simulationen zu einem allgemeinen Mindestlohn weisen einhellig auf … Beschäftigungsverluste durch einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn für die Bundesrepublik hin. Die Größenordnung hängt vom Mindestlohnniveau …, Gütermarktreaktionen und der Reichweite des Mindestlohnes (Einschluss Auszubildender, geringfügig Beschäftigter) ab. Bei einem Mindestlohn …

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Mindestlöhne, Lohnsubventionen und Einkommenssicherung im Wohlfahrtsstaat : Verteilungswirkungen von Reformalternativen für Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor - 2010

fiskalische Rückverteilung über eine kompensierende Subventionierung der Arbeitskosten erfolgt. -- Lohnsubventionen ; Mindestlohn …

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts...

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Job protection renders minimum wages less harmful

Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2011

Individual labour productivities are often unobservable for firms when hiring new workers. Job protection may prevent firms ex post from using information about labour productivities. We show that a binding minimum wage introduced in the presence of job protection will lead to lower unemployment...

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