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Introducing minimum wages in Germany : employment effects in a post Keynesian perspective
Heise, Arne; Pusch, Toralf - 2018 - Revised version
There has been a long discussion about the employment impact of minimum wages and this discussion has recently been renewed with the introduction of an economy-wide, binding minimum wage in Germany in 2015. In traditional reasoning, based on the allocational approach of modern labour market...
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Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages : new insights from a survey experiment
Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018
. Je stärker der Mindestlohn steigt, desto größer ist der erwartete Beschäftigungsrückgang. Beschäftigungsanpassungen … fallen in denjenigen Branchen und Betrieben größer aus, die stärker vom derzeitigen Mindestlohn betroffen sind, sowie in … der Mindestlohn um ca. 10 Prozent gesenkt wird. Dies hängt vor allem damit zusammen, dass Betriebe mit Betriebsräten und …
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Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages : new insights from a survey experiment
Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018
The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in minimum wages to about 6,000 establishments in Germany and asks the personnel managers about their...
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Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages : new insights from a survey experiment
Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018
stärker der Mindestlohn steigt, desto größer ist der erwartete Beschäftigungsrückgang. Beschäftigungsanpassungen fallen in … denjenigen Branchen und Betrieben größer aus, die stärker vom derzeitigen Mindestlohn betroffen sind, sowie in denjenigen … Mindestlohn um ca. 10 Prozent gesenkt wird. Dies hängt vor allem damit zusammen, dass Betriebe mit Betriebsräten und …
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Employment expectations and uncertainties ahead of the new German minimum wage
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die … bei betroffenen Arbeitgebern. Außerdem werden von den vom Mindestlohn betroffenen Arbeitgebern Lohnkosten häufiger als …. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die …
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2016
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...
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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this...
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Does the German minimum wage help low income households? : evidence from observed outcomes and the simulation of potential effects
Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019
Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante...
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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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 construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border...
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