Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Earnings and Working ...

The positive effect of the introduction of the minimum wage on the hourly wages of low-wage employees amounts to 13 %, which is substantially ...

Effects of the German minimum wage on earnings and working time ...

This study examines the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on hourly wages, monthly wages and paid working hours.

Effects of the German minimum wage on earnings and working time ...

This study estimates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Ger- many on hourly wages, monthly wages and paid working hours.

Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Earnings and Working ...

Abstract: This study examines the short-term effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on hourly wages, monthly wages and.

The effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany

Set at an initial level of €8.50 per hour, the minimum wage directly affected the wages of around 4.0 million employees who earned less than € ...

(PDF) Effects of the German minimum wage on earnings and ...

The results indicate an effect of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on hourly wages of about 13 percent. Due to negative effects on working time of ...

Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an ...

A large number of empirical studies have examined the labor market effects of minimum wages (see Dube, 2019 and Neumark, 2019 for recent surveys). Most of these ...

Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

While employment effects of the minimum wage are negligible, we find strong wage increases among the existing workforce. The minimum wage lowered wage ...

Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages

I estimate the model via the method of simulated moments using German administrative linked employer-employee as well as survey data from the years 2011 to 2014 ...

The introduction of a minimum wage in Germany and the effects on ...

Given that the introduction of the minimum wage did not increase monthly gross income but reduced working hours, it appears that affected ...

Employment effects of introducing a minimum wage: The case of ...

In 2015, the German government introduced a nationwide statutory minimum wage to reduce income inequality by improving the labour income of low-wage employees.

German minimum wage drove workers to more productive firms

The research showed that wages of low-paid workers increased relative to that of high-paid workers without lowering employment rates. By ...

Reallocation effects of the minimum wage - CEPR

This column shows that, in fact, the introduction of the minimum wage boosted pay for low-wage workers without lowering their employment prospects.

The Impact of the German Minimum Wage on Individual ... - EconStor

We find that the minimum wage introduction can account for hourly wage growth in the order of roughly 6.5 % or €0.45/hour and an increase in monthly earnings of ...

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage - Oxford Academic

We find that the minimum wage significantly increased wages of low-wage workers, relative to wages of high-wage workers located further up the wage distribution ...

The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany ...

Two years after the minimum wage introduction, the following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative ...

The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German ...

Using a decomposition, they show that the minimum wage was responsible for 40–60% of the observed reduction in earnings inequality between 2015 ...

Employment Effects of the New German Minimum Wage

A difference-in-differences estimation reveals an increase in average wages between 3.8% and 6.3% and an employment loss by approximately 1.7% ...

Side effects of the introduction of the German minimum wage on ...

Moreover, empirical studies addressing minimum wages often fail to detect negative employment effects (e. g., Card and Krueger 1994, Dube et al, 2010, Doerr/ ...

Germany: Minimum wage country profile - Eurofound

Not counting towards the minimum wage are capital-forming benefits, night work supplements (if paid in accordance with the Working Time Act), and special ...