Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage … introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …. Based on data from the German Socio-EconomicPanel we analyze changes in wage and income inequality, poverty, and …

Previous literature on the distributional impact of the minimum wage in Germany has either focused on earnings and … household incomes. We analyze different measures of hourly-wage and household-income distributions, both, for the group of … for disposable household income. Confirming ex-ante simulations we do not see affected households benefiting much from the …

market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties … were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal effect of the Hartz reforms on income inequality. My results suggest … that the Hartz reforms have led to a small increase in income inequality. Testing for potential transmission channels, I …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on … the wage distribution in the surrounding area. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the political consequences of regional income …

To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a … (East Germany). The results hold if those who are not employed anymore after the reform are included in the analysis. …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

on Spanish households. We document a large and negative effect on household income. By May 2020, the average individual … lived in a household that had lost 16% of their pre-pandemic monthly income. Furthermore, this drop was highly unequal …: while households in the richest quintile lost 6.8% of their income, those in the poorest quintile lost 27%. We also document …