Wage developments in the EU and the impact of Germany's ...

Moreover, wage inequalities declined in around two-third of European countries, but very especially in Germany. Results show that the German minimum wage policy ...

Wage developments in Germany: current situation, comparison with ...

With a slight time lag, the strong surge in inflation in Germany from mid-2021 also had an impact on nominal wages. First, growth in actual ...

Germany's Minimum Wage Controversy: Will the EU Directive Be ...

The EU pushes for a 60 per cent median wage standard—yet Germany resists. What's at stake for fair wages?

WAGE DEVELOPMENTS AND WAGE SETTING SYSTEMS

It can also impact on labour supply, including decisions to participate in the labour market. 2. Wage developments also affect external price competitiveness.

Germany's Real Challenges are Aging, Underinvestment, and Too ...

Germany is struggling. It was the only G7 economy to shrink last year and is set to be the group's slowest-growing economy again this year, ...

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 ...

Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling

Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution. German ...

2. European Wage Dynamics and Labor Market Integration

Aggregate EU developments mask some heterogeneities across regions and countries. In contrast with EU-wide developments, Germany managed to bring down ...

Economic Key Facts Germany - KPMG International

According to the International Monetary Fund, this amounted to 48.3% in Germany in 2023 and was therefore slightly below the EU average of 49.3%; however, other ...

Minimum wage developments in 2022 | etui

The development of nominal statutory hourly minimum wages in 2023 varies considerably across the EU. The nominal increases range from just above 5% in Malta ( ...

German wages, the Phillips curve and migration in the euro area

Germany's wage developments have continuously outperformed those of the euro area since 2010, while the opposite was true before 2010. The same ...

Lessons from the Germany shock: Consequences of uncoordinated ...

These developments are putting pressure on EU members to also engage in industrial policy measures. This column evaluates the impact of ...

The consequences of EU eastern enlargement on human capital

... German apprenticeship market prior to EU enlargement. Moreover, the study provides the first extensive evidence of apprentice wage developments in the ...

Global Wage Report 2020-21: Factsheet for the European Union

... wage growth and productivity growth in EU-27 countries. Sustainable ... Figure 18: Potential impact of two simulated minimum wage scenarios on ...

Wages, collective bargaining and economic development in Germany

Among other things, this had a major impact on the development of wage policy in Germany leading to ... And how does it affect other EU member states? Brussels: ...

Wage Developments in the Central and Eastern European EU ...

In Poland, too, the southwestern regions on the border with Germany and the Czech Republic recorded above-average wage growth. This is ...

The long-term effects of German unification on wages, employment ...

Yet the negative effect of repeated reforms on labour income in Germany has compressed effective demand. The overall effect on GDP growth was negative and ...

Germany's struggle for price competitiveness Macroeconomic effects ...

This led to the label of Germany being the “Sick. Man of Europe”. The next section 2 portrays developments in wages, unit labour costs, and cost.

Wage growth in Germany - Deutsche Bundesbank

See B Galgoczi, J Leschke and. A Watt (2009), EU labour migration since enlargement. Trends, impacts, and policies, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham. (GB). 27 For ...

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.