This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …

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 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 …

Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few … such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using … detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and … employees in a geographical region with wages below the minimum wage prior to the reform. We document the reform's positive …

Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of …

following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a … as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and selff-employment, as well as reservation …

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

-related job protection in Germany on employment opportunities for women in childbearing age without children for whom the observed … 1990s constitute the setting for a difference-in-differences analysis of the transition into employment as well as wages …In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing …