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Can the German minimum wage alleviate poverty and income inequality? Evidence from observed data and simulated counterfactuals
Backhaus, Teresa - 2020
introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848958
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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes
Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204499
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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
Atkinson's book Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Harvard University Press, 2015) sets out a range of concrete proposals aimed at reducing income inequality, which cover a very broad span but include major changes to the income tax and social transfers system and the minimum wage. These are framed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011684475
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The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty
Vandelannoote, Dieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2017
This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an international comparative setting, taking account of both first and second order labour supply effects. We use the micro-simulation model EUROMOD, which has been enriched with a discrete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011676003
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Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries : a microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD
Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira; Filauro, Stefano; … - 2021
This paper analyses the first-round effects of hypothetical minimum wage increases on social outcomes in 21 EU countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593810
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Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries : a microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD
Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira; Filauro, Stefano; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-39
This paper analyzes the effects of hypothetical MW (HMW) increases on social and fiscal outcomes in 21 European Union (EU) countries with a statutory national MW (NMW) based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014328820
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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes
Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
their nominal wages are further above it. We find substantial positive wage effects, including statistically significant … spillovers up to around the 20th percentile of wages. Overall we find small negative effects on employment which are not … households are limited by the withdrawal of means tested benefits as earnings increase. Effects of minimum wages on household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012802873
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Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes
Dube, Arindrajit - 2017
wage policies influence the distribution of family incomes. I find robust evidence that higher minimum wages shift down the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613156
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Entrepreneurs and Freelancers: are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German Case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016 - This version: April 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509118
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Entrepreneurs and freelancers are they time and income multidimensional poor? : the German case
Merz, Joachim; Rathjen, Tim - 2016
Entrepreneurs and freelancers, the self-employed, commonly are characterized as not only to be relatively rich in income but also as to be rich in time because of their time-sovereignty in principle. Our introducing study scrutinises these results and notions about the well-being situation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458904