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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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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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High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2013
substantial minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual … wage growth rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292640
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages: An empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015
statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412774
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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2016
statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494334
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High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna - 2017
We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main … rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744494
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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/10010310688
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297667
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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300706
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts: A microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300709