with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. -- Marginal employment ; social …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …’ social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main … rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect on the …