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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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The effect of minimum wages on labour market flows : evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Penninger, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015
, as well as accessions and separations and their underlying worker flows. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are … the minimum wage reduced worker flows in East Germany, the between approach yields positive effect on labour market … dynamics in West Germany. Our results can be explained by differences between East and West Germany with respect to the bite of …
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Flows – Evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2016
, as well as accessions and separations and their underlying worker flows. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are … the minimum wage reduced worker flows in East Germany, the between approach yields positive effect on labour market … dynamics in West Germany. Our results can be explained by differences between East and West Germany with respect to the bite of …
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Do frictions matter in the labor market? : accessions, separations and minimum wage effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - 2011
We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structural approaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wage elasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods. We begin by providing the...
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Credible research designs for minimum wage studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - 2013
We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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Price effects of minimum wages : evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2013
construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm … estimations show that the minimum wage did have a different impact in East and West Germany. In East Germany, we find significant …, there was no significant price reaction observed for West Germany. The minimum wage seems too low compared to the wages paid …
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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated. -- Minimum wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009267845
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Estimating the employment effects of a minimum wage from a cross-sectional wage distribution : a semi-parametric approach
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2012
effect for West Germany is markedly smaller, since the minimum wage level was lower in relation to the wage distribution …
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Impact of labour market liberalisation on minimum wage effects : the case of the construction sector in a small open economy
Stricker, Luzius; Baruffini, Moreno - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 155-174
Objective: The objective of this article is to estimate the impact of the application of the bilateral agreement of Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the EU-15 countries on the labour market outcomes in the Swiss main construction sector. The analysis happens in the context of...
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The effects of minimum wages in the German construction sector : reconsidering the evidence
Möller, Joachim; König, Marion - 2012
construction sector. In 1997, a wage floor was introduced at different rates in West and East Germany. For analysing the impact of … positive and statistically significant effect of the minimum wage in East Germany, but an insignifcant effect for West Germany …
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