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

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …

Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment … bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages - and be harmful to employment - when bargaining follows the …. Empirical and experimental research, however, has shown that the introduction of a minimum wage can raise even those wages that …

-neutral "employment bonus" which subsidizes small hourly wages and not low wage incomes is considered. The "employment bonus" would induce … 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 …