(EU) countries with a statutory national MW (NMW) based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological … increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality, and the gender pay gap, while generally improving the …

countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological … suggest that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality and the gender pay gap, while …

A number of studies documents that minimum wage policies have the potential to reduce income inequality. The recently …-level analyses by exploring the impact of minimum wage policies on EU-level income inequality. To our knowledge, this is the first … study that uses a microsimulation model such as EUROMOD to assess the impact of EU-promoted policies on the distribution of …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

With its introduction in 2015, the statutory minimum wage in Germany intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers … decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points respectively in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual … decrease in discriminatory remuneration structures in the West of Germany due to the introduced wage floor. …

which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in … both components in two. Decreases in inequality reflect decreases in transitory differentials in four countries, in …

statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage distribution during the 1980s in the U.S. and since the mid 1990s in …

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show …-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality. Evidence from the US suggests that these theoretical results are empirically … inequality ; monopsony ; efficiency wage ; over-education …