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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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Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und Mindestlöhnen : zur Reform des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
In diesem Beitrag werden die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und eines Mindestlohnes für Deutschland … analysiert. Studien zum Mindestlohn im Baugewerbe und Simulationen zu einem allgemeinen Mindestlohn weisen einhellig auf … Beschäftigungsverluste durch einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn für die Bundesrepublik hin. Die Größenordnung hängt vom Mindestlohnniveau …
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Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich : Wege und Irrwege
Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618503
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Kommt der Mindestlohn überall an? : eine Zwischenbilanz
Körzell, Stefan (ed.); Falk, Claudia (contributor) - 2015 - 1. Aufl.
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Einflüsse des Mindestlohns auf das Tarifgeschehen : Ergebnisse ausgewählter Niedriglohnbranchen
Fulda, Carolin; Lesch, Hagen; Schröder, Christoph; … - 2023
Bundesregierung beeinflusst wurde, den Mindestlohn ab Oktober 2022 auf 12 Euro je Stunde zu erhöhen. Viele Tariflohngruppen drohten … anzupassen. Auslaufende Tarifverträge wurden zumeist regulär erneuert, teilweise wurden auch Tarifverhandlungen vorgezogen. Mit …
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The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment : county-level estimates for the United States
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2008
We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...
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Stemming the tide : what have EU countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2015
Governments across the EU have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when structural economic shifts are putting pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This...
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Why minimum wage increases are a poor way to help the working poor
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2014
Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A...
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1998 - (Second Revision)
The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...
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State minimum wage changes and the employment of low-wage workers : new evidence from 2011 - 2014
Hoffman, Saul D.; Shum, Wai-Kit - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491153