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statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
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Empirical evaluations of national minimum wages, such as in Germany or the UK, rely on bite measures that capture …
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I analyze the spillover effects of publicly announced sectoral minimum wages in Germany. My identification strategy … differences estimation. Subminimum wage workers in related industries outside of the minimum wage sector experience an increase in … of Germany's first sectoral minimum wage. The reduction of information frictions, rather than the strategic interaction …
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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 …
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renewed with the introduction of an economy-wide, binding minimum wage in Germany in 2015. In traditional reasoning, based on …
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Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on … existence of pre-trends leads to an upward bias for the estimation of the minimum wage effect. We do not find any significant …
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Most of the workers who earn at or below the minimum wage are either less educated, young, or female in the United States. In light of this, we examine the extent to which the minimum wage influences the wage differential among workers with different observed characteristics and the wage...
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We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
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We extend the task-based empirical framework used in the job polarization literature to analyze the susceptibility of low-wage employment to technological substitution. We find that increases in the cost of low-wage labor, via minimum wage hikes, lead to relative employment declines at...
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