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We study the subsidization of extra jobs in a general equilibrium framework. While the previous literature focuses on symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme...
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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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Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
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In this paper, we attempt to renew the interest in marginal employment subsidies. Such subsidies are paid only for a firm's additional employment exceeding some reference level and create larger employment stimuli at lower fiscal costs than general wage subsidies for all workers. If the hiring...
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Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor Arbeitsplatzverlusten werden meist mit Verweis auf internationale Erfahrungen als ungerechtfertigt zurückgewiesen. Beispielsweise wurde 1999 in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu...
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Ab dem 1. Januar 2015 soll im gesamten Bundesgebiet ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € je Zeitstunde gelten. Anhand simulierter Lohnverteilungen für das Jahr 2015 quantifizieren wir die Auswirkungen dieses Mindestlohns auf die Beschäftigung in den einzelnen Landkreisen und...
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Entgegen der landläufigen Meinung blieb die Einführung des Mindestlohns keineswegs ohne Nebenwirkungen. Der flächendeckende Mindestlohn hat den Beschäftigungsaufbau in Ostdeutschland nicht gestoppt, aber verlangsamt: Seit dem Beschluss des Mindestlohngesetzes durch den Deutschen Bundestag...
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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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In this paper, we attempt to renew the interest in marginal employment subsidies. Such subsidies are paid only for a firm's additional employment exceeding some reference level and create larger employment stimuli at lower fiscal costs than general wage subsidies for all workers. If the hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335370