scholarly journals The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caliendo ◽  
Alexandra Fedorets ◽  
Malte Preuss ◽  
Carsten Schroeder ◽  
Linda Wittbrodt
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Short Run

scholarly journals Using Occupations to Evaluate the Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage

2020 ◽  
Vol 240 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 269-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Regional Effect ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Regular Employment ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Wage Floor ◽  
Effect Heterogeneity ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper evaluates the short to medium run employment effects of the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany. The effect of the policy is recovered from variation in the bite of the minimum wage across occupations using a difference-in-differences estimator. The analysis reveals that the reform only had a small impact on employment and highlights the importance of regional effect heterogeneity. In East Germany, marginal employment decreased by about 18,000 jobs in the short run and 52,000 jobs in the medium run, respectively, due to the minimum wage. In West Germany, no negative employment effects are detectable, but regular employment increased temporarily because of the reform. The medium run estimates include the impact of the first marginal increase of the wage floor from €8.50 to €8.84 in 2017.

scholarly journals The short-run employment effects of the German minimum wage reform

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 46-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caliendo ◽  
Alexandra Fedorets ◽  
Malte Preuss ◽  
Carsten Schröder ◽  
Linda Wittbrodt
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Short Run

scholarly journals The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caliendo ◽  
Alexandra Fedorets ◽  
Malte Preuss ◽  
Carsten Schroeder ◽  
Linda Wittbrodt
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Short Run

scholarly journals The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodo Aretz ◽  
Terry Gregory ◽  
Melanie Arntz
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Scale Effects ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Eastern Germany

Abstract This study contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers of minimum wages. We exploit the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of remaining employed in the roofing sector for workers with and without a binding minimum wage and use the plumbing sector that is not subject to a minimum wage as a suitable benchmark sector. By estimating the counterfactual wage that plumbers would receive in the roofing sector given their characteristics, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment spillovers to workers without a binding minimum wage may result from scale effects and/or capital-labour substitution.

scholarly journals Employment Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage

10.3386/w0812 ◽  
1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Boschen ◽  
Herschel Grossman
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Federal Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labor Market Concentration

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Azar ◽  
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn ◽  
Ioana Elena Marinescu ◽  
Bledi Taska ◽  
Till Von Wachter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Market Concentration ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Wage Employment

scholarly journals The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Neumark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Definitive Answer ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Known Unknowns ◽  
Wage Increases

Abstract I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for understanding the conflicting evidence and arriving at a more definitive answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of uncertainty about the likely effects of the large minimum wage increases becoming more prevalent in the United States. I discuss some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try to emphasize what research can be done now and in the near future to provide useful evidence to policymakers on the results of the coming high minimum wage experiment, whether in the United States or in other countries.

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