This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …

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

an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's hourly wage in a two-stage least squares estimation based on …

introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …

Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax-benefit system and net incomes at the household level …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings … Costa Rica. This country's large uncovered sector and complex minimum wage policy, which has for decades set numerous wages … minimum wages. We find that legal minimum wages have a significant positive effect on the wages of workers in the covered …

hourly wages (Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on exante simulations (Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides … pre-reform wages ignoring large job fluctuations and measurement error at the bottom of the wage distribution. In contrast …