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Mom's out : employment after childbirth and firm-level responses

Carta, Francesca; Casarico, Alessandra; De Philippis, Marta - 2024

This paper explores how firms respond to the exit of mothers from the labour market after childbirth. As an exogenous shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian mothers can receive also upon resigning within 12...

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A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage : nothing crazy!

Bossler, Mario; Chittka, Lars; Schank, Thorsten - 2024

We present the first empirical evidence on the 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage, implemented in 2022, raising it from € 9.82 to € 10.45 in July and to € 12 in October. Leveraging the German Earnings Survey, a large and novel data source comprising around 8 million...

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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment

Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2019

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of Germany's statutory minimum wage in 2015 on employment and …

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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

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Job protection, minimum wage and unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction - la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles...

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People versus machines in the UK : minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs

Lordan, Grace - 2019

This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...

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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets

Popp, Martin - 2021

concentration turns out substantial in Germany. Absent wage floors, a 10 per-cent increase in labor market concentration makes firms …

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2016

We analyze the redistributional (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets, without imposing assumptions on the (in)efficiency of labor rationing. Compared to a distributionally equivalent tax change, a minimum-wage increase raises involuntary...

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