Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal … minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on … effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …

negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated. -- Minimum wage …In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a … relax these assumptions and find that employment levels would be 4-5% higher without the minimum wage in the East German …

Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and … reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e … descriptive ex-post evidence on the distributional implications of the German minimum wage on wages and disposable household …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …. Using administrative social security data, we confirm previous findings and show that the average duration of employment …

-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the … the distribution suggesting spillover effects to wages where the minimum is not binding. -- Minimum wage ; construction …

spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self …

. We observe that the emergency aid program had significant effects, with the subjective survival probability of self-employment …

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 for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax …-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …