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

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

In diesem Beitrag werden die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und eines Mindestlohnes für Deutschland … 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 …

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Evolution of the East German wage structure

Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …

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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001

This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...

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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

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Monopsony and automation

Azar, José; Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, … - 2023

We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor, monopsonistic firms have stronger incentives to...

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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...

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Minimum wages and poverty

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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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...

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The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage

Manning, Alan - 2016

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Minimum wages and the China syndrome: causal evidence from US local labor markets

Milsom, Luke; Roland, Isabelle - 2021

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