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Mindestlöhne kosten Arbeitsplätze: Jobverluste vor allem bei Geringverdienern
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 30, pp. 418-423
auf Basis empirisch ermittelter Elastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage - differenziert nach Qualifikation, Geschlecht und … Region - zeigen, dass ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn mit erheblichen Beschäftigungsverlusten verbunden wäre. Je nach … angenommener Reaktion der Güternachfrage auf die mit einem Mindestlohn verbundenen Kostensteigerungen würden zwischen 70 000 und …
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Wie groß sind die Beschäftigungsverluste aufgrund eines allgemeinen Mindestlohns?
Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 26, pp. 430-433
Stichprobe und die unterstellten Elastizitäten der Arbeitsnachfrage reagieren. Ein allgemeiner Mindestlohn von 7,50 Euro hätte …
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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? A comparison of different data sources and assumptions
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...
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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
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Minimum wage: Labour market consequences in the Czech Republic
Fialová, Kamila; Mysíková, Martina - 2009
regional unemployment. Consequently, using detail individual data from 2004/2005, we analyze the annual hikes in the minimum … probabilities. Our results reveal that the minimum wage has had a significant impact on increasing regional unemployment and …
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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Zylberberg, André; Cahuc, Pierre - 1999
We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …
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Noncompliance and the effects of the minimum wage on hours and welfare in competitive labor markets
Danziger, Leif - 2009
This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...
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Noncompliance and the effects of the minimum wage on hours and welfare in competitive labor markets
Danziger, Leif - 2009
This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272316
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Endogenous monopsony and the perverse effect of the minimum wage in small firms
Danziger, Leif - 2009
The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269415
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Endogenous monopsony and the perverse effect of the minimum wage in small firms
Danziger, Leif - 2009
The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272317