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 …

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 …

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

. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage …

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …

We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 …

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using …

In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a …