. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …

With its introduction in 2015, the statutory minimum wage in Germany intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers …. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half … decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points respectively in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …