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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? A microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a...

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Aggregation Bias in Elasticities of Substitution and the Minimum Wage Paradox

Teulings, Coen N. - 1998

While the employment effects of minimum wages are usually reported to be small (suggesting low substitutability between skill types), direct estimates suggest a much larger degree of substitutability. This paper argues that this paradox is largely due to a bias induced by the aggregation of...

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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 1999

It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...

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Measuring the Equilibrium Effects of Unemployment Benefits Dispersion

van Vuuren, Aico; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Ridder, Geert - 1999

We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wagesusing an equilibrium search model which allows for dispersion ofbenefits and productivity levels, job-to-job transitions, andstructural and frictional unemployment. The estimation method usesreadily available aggregate data on...

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The Contribution of Minimum Wages to Increasing Wage Inequality

Teulings, Coen N. - 1998

There has been much attention for the causes of the increase in wageinequality in the United States since the mid seventies. DiNardo,Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) showed that minimum wages can explain 25%. The present paper uses a more general approach requiring noassumptions on how minimum wages...

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Signaling and Screening of Workers' Motivation

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A.J. - 2002

This paper develops a model in which workers are heterogeneous in their intrinsic motivation to work at a firm. We characterise optimal incentive schemes and examine how the firm can attract and select highly motivated workers to fill a vacancy when workers’ motivation is private information....

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Mindestlohn: Beschäftigungsrisiken höher als behauptet

Schuster, Thomas - 2013

Das Mindestlohn-Kompendium trägt alle wichtigen Informationen zusammen, die in der Mindestlohndebatte interessant sind … höher als der Gleichgewichtslohn ist. Empirische Analysen über den Mindestlohn in Deutschland ergeben, dass sich der … Mindestlohn im ostdeutschen Bauhauptgewerbe und im gesamtdeutschen Dachdeckerhandwerk negativ auf die Beschäftigung ausgewirkt hat …

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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998

Montenegro, Claudio; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - 2003

Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusually large variance in labor policy in Chile to...

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Gesetzliche Mindestlöhne: Mit der Einführung kommen die Tücken der Umsetzung

Brenke, Karl; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 11, pp. 751-757

Ein allgemeiner, gesetzlicher Mindestlohn ist nach den Bundestagswahlen 2013 ein ganz wichtiges politisches Thema in …

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In the shadow of the labour market

Ognedal, Tone - 2012

Why do not people evade more taxes when their gain from evasion is higher than the expected penalties? Why does only a small minority evade when a large majority is willing to? These tax evasion puzzles are explained in a labour market framework where employees may combine reported work in firms...

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