conditional and unconditional distribution of earnings. For Eastern Germany, the results indicate significant real (nominal) wage …

This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences … estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries …

This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences … estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries …

introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 exploiting cross-sectional variation of the minimum wage affectedness … aggregate monthly income data. The estimation strategy consists of two steps. We test for (unidentified) structural breaks in a …

analyses for East and West Germany. Our results show important differences in monopsonistic power between industries, and … between East and West Germany, which gives an indication of the role of monopsonistic power for inter-industry wage … statutory minimum in Germany on 1st Januar 2015. …

introduction mainly affected the labour market in East Germany, while the minimum wage increases increasingly affected low …-wage regions in West Germany, with about one third of regions changing their (binary) treatment status between 2014 and 2018. We … estimators that allow unbiased effect estimation with a staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous treatment effects. Our …

minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on …

Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

Germany, but there is almost no evidence for employment effects. The results also show that the wage effect is quickly undone …