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The administration and impact of a national minimum wage : lessons for Germany
Dolton, Peter - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 3/4, pp. 201-208
"The problem of trying to estimate what the effect of the minimum wage will have on employment (or any other outcome) has puzzled economists for over 150 years. Some factions in Germany have recently contemplated supplementing their extensive system of sector and branch minimum wages with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118492
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The administration and impact of a national minimum wage : lessons for Germany
Dolton, Peter - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 3/4, pp. 201-208
"The problem of trying to estimate what the effect of the minimum wage will have on employment (or any other outcome) has puzzled economists for over 150 years. Some factions in Germany have recently contemplated supplementing their extensive system of sector and branch minimum wages with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643145
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 04, pp. 34-35
Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …
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Sozialreformen im Vereinigten Königreich
Peter, Waltraut - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 32 (2005) 4, pp. 47-59
Im Jahr 1997 trat New Labour im Vereinigten Königreich mit dem Versprechen an, eine neue Balance zwischen Eigenverantwortung und staatlicher Fürsorge zu schaffen. Eine Modernisierung des Steuer- und Transfersystems sollte sowohl die Arbeitsanreize verbessern und Erwerbschancen für jeden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633163
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The administration and impact of a national minimum wage: lessons for Germany
Dolton, Peter - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 3/4, pp. 201-208
The problem of trying to estimate what the effect of the minimum wage will have on employment (or any other outcome) has puzzled economists for over 150 years. Some factions in Germany have recently contemplated supplementing their extensive system of sector and branch minimum wages with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650765
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Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two ?treatment groups? for estimating the impact of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262627
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Minimum wages and firm profitability
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - 2006
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a significant impact on wages, but only a limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267300
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A persistence model of the national minimum wage
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2007
This paper utilises the panel element of the BHPS (waves 9 to 14) to examine the dynamics of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) introduced to Britain in 1999. Specifically a persistence measure based on a random effects probit model for those affected by the NMW is constructed. The conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267941
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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009
One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271255
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Behavioural and welfare effects of basic income policies: A simulation for European countries
Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena; Narazani, Edlira; … - 2008
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288294