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Minimum wages and employment : the case of German unification
Heitger, Bernhard - 2001
Analysis in terms of the two-sector open economy shows that in bringing the market economy to East Germany, West Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real appreciation of the East German currency. Premature...
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Minimum wages and employment : the case of German unification
Heitger, Bernhard - 2001
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Taking public opinion seriously : a general equilibrium model of low-wage competition, offshoring, and unemployment
Arnold, Lutz; Trepl, Stefanie - 2011
This paper analyzes a North-South trade model with costly offshoring and equilibrium unemployment due to union wage setting. Reductions in the amount of resources required in the offshoring process usually decrease employment, though the opposite can happen at a low initial level of offshoring...
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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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Tarifverträge : Schlüssel zur Verringerung der Lohnungleichheit
Bosch, Gerhard - In: Makroökonomie im Dienste der Menschen : Festschrift …, (pp. 247-258). 2019
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Characteristics contributing to low- and minimum-wage labour in Germany
Dütsch, Matthias; Himmelreicher, Ralf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 161-200
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 51, pp. 5268-5286
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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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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - In: FinanzArchiv : public finance analysis 65 (2009) 4, pp. 403-441
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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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