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The empirical relevance of minimum wages for the low-wage sector
Ragnitz, Joachim; Thum, Marcel - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 35-37
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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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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323028
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411709
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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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Explaining the East German productivity gap : the role of human capital
Ragnitz, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West 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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Labor market entry conditions, wages and job mobility
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; David, Peggy - 2010
Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well documented, little is known about their interaction with...
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