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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency

Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017

In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment and on welfare dependency. Based on county-level administrative data, this study uses the difference-in-differences...

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Looking for the Workforce : The Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - 2010

supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in to minimum wages, unemployment benefits and retirement regulation? Do …

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Impact of labour market liberalisation on minimum wage effects : the case of the construction sector in a small open economy

Stricker, Luzius; Baruffini, Moreno - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 155-174

firms do not dispose of instruments to cover higher wages, a country sealing off its markets from an interconnected economic … space could pay minimum wages above the marginal productivity of its workers. Contribution & Value Added: Making use of an …

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The Design and Effects of Collectively Agreed Minimum Wages: Evidence from Sweden

Skedinger, Per - 2007

is line with the view that minimum wages are higher than otherwise when unions are involved in minimum wage setting. The …Minimum wages in Sweden are collectively agreed and differ by industry. Within agreements, the rates are also highly … differentiated. Minimum wages are higher in Sweden than in any of the countries with statutory rates considered in this study. This …

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Assessing the impact of wage bargaining and worker preferences on the gender pay gap in Ireland using the national employment survey 2003

McGuinness, Seamus; Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip; … - 2009

This paper assesses the magnitude and nature of the gender pay gap in Ireland using the National Employment Survey 2003, an employeremployee matched dataset. The results suggest that while a wage bargaining system centred around social partnership was of benefit to females irrespective of their...

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Wage compression and the gender pay gap : wage-setting institutions narrow the gender pay gap but may reduce employment for some women

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015

pay gap. Among them are skill supply and demand, unions, and minimum wages, which influence the economywide wage returns …

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Wage determination in the shadow of the law: the case of works councilors in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a...

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Wage determination in the shadow of the law : the case of works councilors in Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021

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Hours Inequality

Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022

argues that in order to understand earnings dispersion we need to consider not only the dispersion of hourly wages but also … hours and wages, assessing their contribution to recent trends in earnings inequality. We find that, other than in the US … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be …

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Hours Inequality

Checchi, Daniele; Garca-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022

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