Alle im Bundestag vertretenen Parteien treten inzwischen für Mindestlohnregulierungen ein, deutlich unterschiedliche Positionen gibt es jedoch hinsichtlich der Gestaltung und der Höhe. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird gezeigt, dass bei einem allgemeinen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn vor allem...

Alle im Bundestag vertretenen Parteien treten inzwischen für Mindestlohnregulierungen ein, deutlich unterschiedliche Positionen gibt es jedoch hinsichtlich der Gestaltung und der Höhe. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird gezeigt, dass bei einem allgemeinen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn vor allem...

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...

In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employer-...

On the basis of a structural labor demand model employment effects of a minimum wage are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution. The main contribution of the paper is to relax restrictive functional form assumptions of earlier papers by introducing more flexible...