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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 …

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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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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle

Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of labour market dynamics in Western Ger- many by looking at gross worker flows. To do so, we use a subsample of the registry data collected by the German social security system, the IAB employment sample, for the time period 1975-2001. The...

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 10, pp. 1135-1152

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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany : evidence from a quasi experiment

Spermann, Alexander (contributor); … - 2006

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control … people in Germany by public case managers. -- field experiments ; labor market reform ; negative income tax ; employee …

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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

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Self-employment - a way to end unemployment? : empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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"Marginal employment" and the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany

Freier, Ronny (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

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. …

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Intergenerational conflict, partisan politics, and public higher education spending : evidence from the German states

Oberndorfer, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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The empirical relevance of minimum wages for the low-wage sector in Germany (Special)

Ragnitz, Joachim; Thum, Marcel - In: CESifo forum : a bi-monthly journal on European … 8 (2007) 2, pp. 35-37

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