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Minimum wage not yet for everyone : on the compensation of eligible workers before and after the minimum wage reform from the perspective of employees
Burauel, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: DIW economic bulletin 7 (2017) 49, pp. 509-522
Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly...
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The idiosyncratic impact of an aggregate shock : the distributional consequences of COVID-19
Benzeval, Michaela; Burton, Jonathan; Crossley, Thomas F.; … - 2020
different economic shocks for different types of worker: those with less education and precarious employment face the biggest …
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Using distribution regression difference-in-differences to evaluate the effects of a minimum wage introduction on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Rümmele, Marian - 2022
-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …-term trend of rising inequality would already have been stopped after 2014 without the minimum wage. We demonstrate that the …
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Minimum wage : does it improve welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Messina, Julián; Sanz de … - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference … in the minimum wage increased inequality in consumption per capita within the bottom half of the distribution. …
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234179
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …-benefit system and net incomes at the household level as well as employment and price effects on the distribution of incomes induced … account negative employment effects and increases in consumer prices induced by the minimum wage would wipe out any positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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The short-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform
Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782012
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The short-term distributional effects of the german minimum wage reform
Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - 2017
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785655
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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 … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … will only have a minor impact on inequality among households with at least one minimum-wage worker. Low wage earners are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341614
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Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland
McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018
per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
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