This study examines the short-term effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on hourly wages …, monthly wages and paid working hours. We exploit a novel panel dataset by linking the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) 2014 … indicate an effect of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on the average hourly wages of employees in minimum wage …

income from wages, as well as gross and net means-weighted income of workers in Germany. For the first time, data from the …

between wages and hours become more important over time in determining earnings inequality. Based on unconditional quantile …

In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income …

employment, we also study the impact of transitions out of and back into formal employment on wages earned in the formal sector …

(GLFS 2015) respectively. The findings indicate that unions' bargaining effect on wages is positive. Furthermore, the study … strength of unions. It is against this background that our study seeks to examine the effect of unions' bargaining (proxied by … union presence variable) on wages in Ghana. We employ the Heckman Selection Model and quantile regression technique to …

increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the impact that workers face earning gross hourly wages below the minimum … wages and working hours for approximately 1 million jobs and nearly 70,000 companies across all industries. Using these rich …. Furthermore, convergence seems to have occurred predominantly among sectors, as their explanatory power for lower wages declined. …

associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …