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Employment and Distribution Effects of the Minimum Wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2011

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. Using an efficiency wage model we show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and...

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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2010

Using an efficiency wage model we show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality. Evidence from the US suggests that these theoretical results are empirically...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10003989582

Employment and distribution effects of the mnimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2012

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10009504652

Reducing poverty and inequality through tax-benefit reform and the minimum wage : the UK as a case-study

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leventi, Chrysa; Nolan, Brian; … - 2017

these tax, transfer and minimum wage reforms on income inequality and poverty based on a microsimulation approach using … to substantially reduce the extent of income inequality and relative income poverty and the paper draws out how the two …

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Can the German minimum wage alleviate poverty and income inequality? Evidence from observed data and simulated counterfactuals

Backhaus, Teresa - 2020

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage …. Based on data from the German Socio-EconomicPanel we analyze changes in wage and income inequality, poverty, and … moreeffective in reducing inequality and poverty …

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Has the minimum wage policy been important for reducing poverty in Brazil? : a decomposition analysis for the period from 2002 to 2013

Brito, Alessandra Scalioni; Kerstenetzky, Celia Lessa - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 20 (2019) 1, pp. 27-43

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

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Minimum wage and the working poor in Nigeria : is there a link?

Aderemi, Taiwo Adekunte - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 60 (2017) 3, pp. 481-499

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Does the German minimum wage benefit low income households : a comparison of observed outcomes and simulated potential effects

Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019

Previous literature on the distributional impact of the minimum wage in Germany has either focused on earnings and hourly wages (Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on exante simulations (Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the...

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Does the German minimum wage help low income households? : evidence from observed outcomes and the simulation of potential effects

Backhaus, Teresa; Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2019

reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e …

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The distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2022

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