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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...
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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
inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching … negatively correlated to earnings inequality in US and EU countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360090
-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 … 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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an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's hourly wage in a two-stage least squares estimation based on …
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inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal …
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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 …
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inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching … negatively correlated to earnings inequality in US and EU countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025327
This paper studies the relationship between inequalities in working hours and overall earnings inequality in Germany … Earnings Survey (GSES), a variance decomposition of earnings inequality reveals that hours inequality and the covariance … between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176404
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well as those for whom it does not apply (the uncovered sector) in Costa Rica. This country's large uncovered sector and complex...
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