Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality … and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a … will only have a minor impact on inequality among households with at least one minimum-wage worker. Low wage earners are …

-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 …

at the bottom of the wage distribution. Effects on wage inequality are limited because of non-compliance, difficulties in …. Overall inequality has even increased slightly as incomes of poor households grew below average. Affected households are not …

impact on overall wage inequality is rather small. Moreover, the minimum wage shows itself to be a poor redistributive tool … reform. Overall income inequality has even increased slightly as disposable income of poor households grew much less than on …

were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal effect of the Hartz reforms on income inequality. My results suggest … that the Hartz reforms have led to a small increase in income inequality. Testing for potential transmission channels, I … find that the increase in inequality is partly due to a direct monetary impact of the last Hartz reform, Hartz IV, on the …

-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on …