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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Journal of Labor Economics, 2022 Monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase in the early 2000s, which is mainly explained by a rising part-time employment share. After 2010, inequality returned to the level of 2000.
Mario Bossler, Thorsten Schank
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Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer
Journal of Political Economy, 2022 We study workers who are employed by a large US retailer, work in many store locations, and are paid based on performance. By means of a border-discontinuity analysis, we document that workers become more productive and are terminated less often after a ...
Decio Coviello +2 more
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The minimum wage as a wage equality policy: Evidence from North Macedonia [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2019 The paper aims to investigate if the minimum wage increase of September 2017 resulted in better wage equality in North Macedonia. The increase of 19% was sizable and included levelling up in the three sectors with a lower minimum wage: textiles,
Petreski Marjan +2 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2021 The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. What is less well known, and more puzzling, is the absence of agreement on what the research literature says – that is, how economists even ...
D. Neumark, Peter Shirley
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Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?
Social Science Research Network, 2022 In many countries, women are over-represented among low-wage employees, which is why a wage floor could benefit them particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap ...
Marco Caliendo, L. Wittbrodt
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Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash compensation, job attributes including effort requirements, the firm’s mix of low- and high-
Jeffrey Clemens
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Do low minimum wages disserve workers? A case study of the Czech and Slovak Republics
Baltic Journal of Economics, 2021 This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005–17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region ...
Kamila Fialová, Martina Mysíková
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How to regulate minimum wage in light of contemporary social change: A case study of Slovenia
Stanovništvo, 2023 Minimum wage stands as a fundamental right for workers and one of the oldest and most universal labour law standards in the world. Understanding the impact of labour market changes, demographic trends, and migration on minimum wage regulation could ...
Andraž Bobovnik, Valentina Franca
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Maliye Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2022 The relationship between the minimum wage level and inflation in Turkey, whether it is below inflation or not, has been a matter of debate for many years. The regional determination of minimum wage levels has also come to the agenda.
Deniz Sevinç
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Social Science Research Network, 2021 This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium- and long-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to ...
Jeffrey Clemens, M. Strain
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