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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695869
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771867
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003336895
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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824758
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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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Dissatisfied with life but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 120 (2010) 547, pp. 867-889
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809671
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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/10008824262
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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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Dissatisfied with life, but having a good day : time-use and well-being of the unemployed
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Schöb, Ronnie; … - 2009
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877436