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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291331
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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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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320593
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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2006
Germany, we show that employment can be substantially increased without imposing additional fiscal burden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335370
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414320
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Marginal employment subsidization : a new concept and a reappraisal
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 59 (2006) 4, pp. 557-577
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379953
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003511563
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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 65 (2009) 4, pp. 403-441
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943158
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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