Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
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 … ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and the position of …