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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies : demographic, economic, and political determinants

Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013

inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628

Sweden's COVID-19 recession : how foreign and domestic infections struck against firms and workers

Akerman, Anders; Ekholm, Karolina; Persson, Torsten; … - 2022

by education, earnings or ethnicity - took a twofold hit: their employers faced the largest output drops and they …

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Using distribution regression difference-in-differences to evaluate the effects of a minimum wage introduction on the distribution of hourly wages and hours worked

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Rümmele, Marian - 2022

-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …-term trend of rising inequality would already have been stopped after 2014 without the minimum wage. We demonstrate that the …

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College expansion and the marginal returns to education : evidence from Russia

Belskaya, Olga; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Posso, Christian - 2014

This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in … policies targeting the expansion of higher education. …

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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

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Regional payroll tax cuts and individual wages : heterogeneous effects across education groups

Stokke, Hildegunn Ekroll - 2016

of the labor demand elasticity decreases with the level of education. …

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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges

Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015

Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we explore how this reduction in out-of-state enrollment differs by the …

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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016

To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...

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