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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 …. Even though minimum wages will lead to increased public revenues from income taxes and social security benefits, they will …
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I analyze the spillover effects of publicly announced sectoral minimum wages in Germany. My identification strategy … exploits exposure to sectoral minimum wages across workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector in a triple … wages, job-to-job transitions, and reallocation from low-paying to high-paying establishments after the public announcement …
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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 …. Even though minimum wages will lead to increased public revenues from income taxes and social security benefits, they will …
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We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to...
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. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …
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We examine how technology is associated with self-employment dynamics using worker-level data from 31 European countries. We find that while employees exposed to labour-augmenting technologies are more likely to move from paid-employment to solo self-employment and viceversa, employees exposed...
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Using a linked employer-employee data set of the German manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the role of exporting establishments in explaining rising wage dispersion. Over the period of analysis (1996–2007), the raw wage differential between exporters and domestic establishments...
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We contribute to the empirical literature on the effective incidence of corporate income taxation. We focus on the so-called direct incidence via the wage bargaining process. Building on the innovative framework of Arulampalam, Devereux and Maffini (2012), we analyze the importance of various...
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Business Tax Reform of the year 2000 (GBTR 2000) as a natural experiment. Its effect on wages in the manufacturing sector is …
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results suggest an elasticity of wages with respect to business taxes that ranges between –0.28 to –0.46, once we control for …
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