employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … changes in employment and wage distribution. Contrary to expectations, our results show that the introduction of the minimum … increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …

as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and selff-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects … are also identifiable. The effects on aspired goals, such as poverty and inequality reduction, have not materialized in …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …

which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in … both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in …