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When the minimum wage bites back : quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Gregory, Terry - 2014
conditional and unconditional distribution of earnings. For Eastern Germany, the results indicate significant real (nominal) wage …
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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658215
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Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model
Blömer, Maximilian J.; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...
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Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk : Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Rammer, … - 2012
Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom … Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive Kostenbelastung fällt dennoch begrenzt aus. Auf der Basis von Differenz …-von-Differenzen-Schätzungen sowohl im Vergleich zu einer nicht von einem Mindestlohn betroffenen Baunebenbranche als auch auf Basis eines Vergleichs von …
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Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes auf die Beschäftigung und den Arbeitnehmerschutz in der Abfallwirtschaft
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Sprietsma, Maresa; Niefert, Michaela; … - 2012
Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn mit ca. 23% der Unternehmen und 6% der Beschäftigten als gering einzustufen ist. Die … Beschäftigungsverhältnisse feststellen. -- Mindestlohn ; Abfallwirtschaft ; Beschäftigung ; Arbeitnehmerschutz …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663227
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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439693
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The residency discount for rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001 : evidence from quantile regressions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016
shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422580
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Give missings a chance : combined stochastic and rule-based approach to improve regression models with mismeasured monotonic covariates without side information
Dlugosz, Stephan - 2011
Register data are known for their large sample size and good data quality. The measurement accuracy of variables highly depends on their high importance for administrative processes. The education variable in the IAB employment sub-sample is an example for information that is gathered without a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901839
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445626
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443321