A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We … examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using …

This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using …

; income distribution ; inequality ; microsimulation …In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …

; income distribution ; inequality ; microsimulation …In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …

; income distribution ; inequality ; microsimulation …In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased … about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality. …

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level … introduction can account for about half of the recent decrease in wage inequality …

Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and … at the bottom of the wage distribution. Effects on wage inequality are limited because of non-compliance, difficulties in …. Overall inequality has even increased slightly as incomes of poor households grew below average. Affected households are not …