Mindestlohn
Seit Inkrafttreten des Mindestlohngesetzes am 1. Januar 2015 gilt ein allgemeingültiger flächendeckender Mindestlohn in Deutschland. Lohnuntergrenzen gibt es in beinahe allen europäischen Staaten und den USA. Die Mindestlohn-Gesetze haben das Ziel, Lohn-Dumping, also die nicht verhältnismäßige Bezahlung von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern, zu verhindern.
Diese Infoplattform dokumentiert die Diskussion rund um die Einführung des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns in Deutschland und die Ergebnisse empirischer Forschung der letzten Jahre zu flächendeckenden und branchenspezifischen Mindestlöhnen.
- IAB
- Grundsätzliches zum flächendeckenden Mindestlohn
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf Personengruppen
- Ausnahmen vom flächendeckenden Mindestlohn für
- Ausweichreaktionen auf Mindestlöhne in Deutschland
- Bundesländer
- Branchenspezifische Mindestlöhne und deren Auswirkungen auf
- Mindestlohn in anderen Ländern
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Minimum wages and insurance within the firm (2024)
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Rachedi, Omar; Manaresi, Francesco; Yurdagul, Emircan;Zitatform
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni, Francesco Manaresi, Omar Rachedi & Emircan Yurdagul (2024): Minimum wages and insurance within the firm. (ZEW discussion paper 24-021), Mannheim, 66 S.
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"Minimum wages generate an asymmetric pass-through of firm shocks across workers. We establish this result leveraging employer-employee data on Italian metalmanufacturing firms, which face different wage floors that vary within occupations. In response to negative firm productivity shocks, workers close to the wage floors experience higher job separations but no wage loss. However, the wage of high-paid workers decreases, and more so in firms with higher incidence of minimum wages. A neoclassical model with complementarities across workers with different skills rationalizes these findings. Our results uncover a novel channel that tilts the welfare gains of minimum wages toward low-paid workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum Wage Effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data (2024)
Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada;Zitatform
Alessandrini, Diana & Joniada Milla (2024): Minimum Wage Effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. 18, H. 2, S. 346-376. DOI:10.1086/728084
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"We investigate the impact of the minimum wage on individuals’ post-secondary schooling decisions. Using Canadian longitudinal data, we explore 136 minimum wage amendments and find three novel results. First, the minimum wage affects both thequantity and type of human capital acquired by students. A 10% increase in the minimum wage increases community-college enrollment by 6.2% but reduces University enrollment by 6.5%. Second, high minimum wages widen the university participation gap between individuals with different levels of parental education. Finally, Minimum wage hikes encourage workers who recently separated from their job to return to post-secondary education as mature students" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Young Bunch: Youth Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes (2024)
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Bezooijen, Emiel van, Wiljan van den Berge & Anna Salomons (2024): The Young Bunch: Youth Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes. In: ILR review, Jg. 77, H. 3, S. 428-460. DOI:10.1177/00197939241239317
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"The authors estimate the effects of an increase in the youth minimum wage in the Netherlands on low-paid workers’ employment and earnings, using a difference-in-differences approach with detailed administrative data. Findings show that the increase does not have a negative effect on the number of jobs or hours worked, hence raising overall earnings for affected workers. Further, the minimum wage increase has substantial spillover effects, accounting for close to 70% of the average wage increase experienced by workers. While employment grows in fixed-term and temporary help agency contracts, the authors do not find evidence of declines in employment in other types of work arrangements, nor of labor-labor substitution. Labor market outcomes evolve most favorably for full-time incumbent workers who are not enrolled in education and are thus less likely to be transient occupants of minimum wage jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Monopsony Power, Offshoring, and a European Minimum Wage (2024)
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Egger, Hartmut, Udo Kreickemeier & Jens Wrona (2024): Monopsony Power, Offshoring, and a European Minimum Wage. (CESifo working paper 10920), München, 24 S.
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"This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically competitive labor markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting part of the production abroad reduces local labor demand and allows firms to more strongly execute their monopsonistic labor market power. However, offshoring between symmetric countries has negative welfare effects and therefore calls for policy intervention. In this context, we put forward the role of a common minimum wage and show that the introduction of a moderate minimum wage increases offshoring and reduces welfare. In contrast, a sizable minimum wage reduces offshoring and increases welfare. Beyond that, we also show that a sufficiently high common minimum wage cannot only eliminate offshoring but also inefficiencies in the resource allocation due to monopsonistic labor market distortions in closed economies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2022 (2024)
Firpo, Sergio; Portella Lorenzon, Alysson;Zitatform
Firpo, Sergio & Alysson Portella Lorenzon (2024): The labor market in Brazil, 2001–2022. (IZA world of labor 441), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.441.v2
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"In the first decade of the 21st century, the Brazilian economy experienced an important expansion followed by a significant decline in inequality. The minimum wage increased rapidly, reducing inequality with no negative effects on employment or formality. This resulted from economic growth and greater supply of skilled labor. However, from 2014-2021, real wages were stagnant, and unemployment rates surged. Inequality rose again, although only marginally. Some positive signs emerged in 2022, although it is still too early to know whether they mark a return to past trends or a recovery from the pandemic." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places (2024)
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Fossati, Sebastian & Joseph Marchand (2024): First to $15: Alberta's Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places. In: ILR review, Jg. 77, H. 1, S. 119-142. DOI:10.1177/00197939231213064
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"Most minimum wage studies are identified on small, plentiful, mostly expected wage changes, spread out over time. A recent set of changes have instead been large, rapid, and unexpected, following the “Fight for $15” movement. Alberta is the first North American province, state, or territory to have this $15 minimum wage, with an unexpectedly large increase (47%) occurring over a short time horizon (3 years). The employment effects of this policy are estimated using a synthetic control approach on Labour Force Survey data. Similar to the existing literature, workers moved up the wage distribution, increment by increment, but with a higher distributional reach. Employment losses occurred at similar elasticities, but with large level changes, mostly among younger workers. Newer to the literature, regional employment losses were found in four of the five non-urban economic regions, but not in Alberta’s two main cities, showing the significance and nuance of regional heterogeneity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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In the Land of AKM: Explaining the Dynamics of Wage Inequality in France (2023)
Babet, Damien; Palladino, Marco G.; Godechot, Olivier;Zitatform
Babet, Damien, Olivier Godechot & Marco G. Palladino (2023): In the Land of AKM: Explaining the Dynamics of Wage Inequality in France. (INSEE documents de travail / Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques 2023-20), Paris, 63 S.
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"We use a newly built and quasi-exhaustive matched employer-employee database to study firms contribution towage inequalities in France. We employ the Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999) model (hereafter AKM) to decompose log-wage variance into between- and within-firm components. Our analysis covering the period from 2002 to 2019 reveals a significant increase in between-firm inequalities, driven by a growing tendency of high-wage workers to cluster together in high premium firms. These phenomena are directly associated with changes in firms demographics and workforce composition. Over the same period, bottom earnings percentiles increased more than the rest of the distribution, in line with the rise in the legal minimum wage. As a result, within-firm inequalities decreased, almost offsetting the rising between-firm inequalities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wages, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution (2023)
Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; Townsend, James;Zitatform
Brochu, Pierre, David A. Green, James Townsend & Thomas Lemieux (2023): The minimum wages, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution. (IFS working paper / Institute for Fiscal Studies 2023,32), London, 62 S.
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"This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages, which provides a convenient way of re-scaling the wage distribution to control for possible employment effects. We find that minimum wage increases do not result in an abnormal concentration of Job Leavers below the new minimum wage, which is inconsistent with employment effects predicted by a neoclassical model. We also find that, for Job Stayers, the spike and spillover effects of the minimum wage are simply shifted right to the new minimum wage. Our findings are consistent with a model where entry wages are set according to a job ladder, and where firms preserve their internal wage structure due to fairness or internal incentives issues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution (2023)
Brochu, Pierre; Townsend, James; Lemieux, Thomas; Green, David A.;Zitatform
Brochu, Pierre, David A. Green, Thomas Lemieux & James Townsend (2023): The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16514), Bonn, 62 S.
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"This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages, which provides a convenient way of re-scaling the wage distribution to control for possible employment effects. We find that minimum wage increases do not result in an abnormal concentration of Job Leavers below the new minimum wage, which is inconsistent with employment effects predicted by a neoclassical model. We also find that, for Job Stayers, the spike and spillover effects of the minimum wage are simply shifted right to the new minimum wage. Our findings are consistent with a model where entry wages are set according to a job ladder, and where firms preserve their internal wage structure due to fairness or internal incentives issues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Political economy of the minimum wage (2023)
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Jiménez, Bruno (2023): The Political economy of the minimum wage. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 85. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102463
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"I evaluate the effects of the 2016 minimum wage hike in Peru on the approval of government performance. My identification strategy exploits the regional heterogeneity in the share of workers directly affected by the increase to implement a series of difference-in-differences specifications. For every percentage point increase in the share of treated workers, the approval of the central government (i.e., the president) also increases by a percentage point. I find a partial spillover effect to other levels of government. These results are robust to a number of alternative specifications and falsification tests, and cannot be explained by the results of the 2016 presidential elections. My findings suggest that improvements in subjective living conditions and non-negative effects on observed labor market performance are the main mechanisms behind these causal effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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The minimum wage and the wage distribution in Portugal (2023)
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Oliveira, Carlos (2023): The minimum wage and the wage distribution in Portugal. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 85. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102459
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"Raising the minimum wage can reshape the wage distribution. Using a semiparametric approach, counterfactual decomposition methods, and an extremely rich administrative dataset of all employees in Portugal, this paper presents significant visual and quantitative evidence of how changes in the minimum wage shaped the country’s wage distribution over the last thirty years. For most of this period, the importance of the minimum wage was decreasing. However, a sustained rise since 2006 coincided with a decline in wage inequality that was comparable to the United States’ total increase in inequality over the last five decades. This remarkable compression of the wage distribution can be fully accounted for by the rising minimum wage. While a minority of workers were directly covered by the minimum wage, spillover effects were observed up to the 54th percentile of the wage distribution, explaining more than half of its inequality-reducing effect. Portugal experienced modest wage growth between 2006 and 2019 but 38% of it can be associated to the increasing minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates (2023)
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Schmillen, Achim, Michael Stops & Dewen Wang (2023): The Determinants of China's Minimum Wage Rates. In: China & World Economy, Jg. 31, H. 3, S. 59-91., 2023-02-12. DOI:10.1111/cwe.12489
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"We use a highly disaggregated panel of macro data and minimum wages at the county level to investigate the processes behind minimum wage adjustments in China. Relying on random effects models, spatial econometrics techniques, and multilevel analyses, we document that a comparatively small number of economic variables – including the local price level and GDP per capita – are important determinants of minimum wage rates. Interactions between adjacent counties and counties of the same administrative type, and centralized mechanisms, particularly at the provincial level, also play an important role in explaining the variance in minimum wage rates across counties. Finally, we show that China's provinces are the key players for setting minimum wage rates and that, when they do so, they are not uniform in the way they weigh different economic variables." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Wiley) ((en))
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Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights (2023)
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Žarković, Jelena, Artan Mustafa & Mihail Arandarenko (2023): Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights. In: Social Policy and Administration, Jg. 57, H. 1, S. 1-15. DOI:10.1111/spol.12855
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"In this article, we examine the evolution of minimum income programmes in the Western Balkans (comprising Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia). During socialism, Yugoslavia developed a rudimentary minimum income protection programme, while Albania did not have one. As countries moved towards a market economy, socialism's legacy remained relevant, but especially since 2000, governments have taken more direct responsibility for the minimum income schemes—typically under the influence of the World Bank. The attention was paid to strict targeting accuracy rather than to adequacy or sufficient coverage of the lowest deciles. In essence, neither socialist nor neoliberal policymakers ever recognised anything but the poverty relief function of the minimum income. Both ideologies were hostile, or at best indifferent, to increasing the adequacy and generosity of minimum income programmes, perceiving them as impediments and distractions that slowed socialist and neoliberal transformations. Despite some reform initiatives supported by the World Bank and, more recently, the European Union, the generosity and adequacy of minimum income programmes remain low, and coverage keeps declining. There have been very few efforts to develop inclusion function of the minimum income, while the activation aspect has achieved very little, sometimes degrading into punitive programmes of unpaid community work. In this dismal picture, the European Pillar of Social Rights action framework could serve as a guide for a long overdue third phase in the Western Balkans' minimum income policy evolution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Minimum Wages and Insurance Within the Firm (2022)
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Rachedi, Omar; Manaresi, Francesco; Yurdagul, Emircan;Zitatform
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni, Francesco Manaresi, Omar Rachedi & Emircan Yurdagul (2022): Minimum Wages and Insurance Within the Firm. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 326), Bonn, 46 S.
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"Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on Italy, and leverage employer-employee data matched to firm balance sheets and hand-collected wage floors. We find a relatively larger pass-through of firm-specific labor-demand shocks into wages for the workers whose earnings are far from the floors, but who are employed by establishments intensive in minimum-wage workers. We study the welfare implications of this fact using an incomplete-market model. The asymmetric pass-through uncovers a novel channel which tilts the benefits of removing minimum wages toward high-paid employees at the expense of low-wage workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The heterogeneous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland (2022)
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Albinowski, Maciej & Piotr Lewandowski (2022): The heterogeneous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland. In: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Jg. 30, H. 2, S. 237-267. DOI:10.1111/ecot.12283
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"We evaluate the impact of large minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland between 2004 and 2018. We estimate panel data models utilizing the considerable variation in wage levels, and in minimum wage bites, across 73 Polish NUTS 3 regions. We find that minimum wage hikes had a significant positive effect on wage growth and a significant negative effect on employment growth only in regions of Poland that were in the first tercile of the regional wage distribution in 2007. These effects were moderate in size, and appear to be more relevant for wages. Specifically, if the ratio of minimum wage to average wage had remained constant after 2007, by 2018, the average wages in these regions would have been 3.2% lower, while employment would have been 1.2% higher. In the remaining two-thirds of Polish regions, we find no significant effects of minimum wage hikes on average wages or on employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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The Introduction of a Living Wage in Ireland (2022)
Doris, Aedín; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive;Zitatform
Doris, Aedín, Donal O'Neill & Olive Sweetman (2022): The Introduction of a Living Wage in Ireland. (Working papers / Department of Economics, NUI Maynooth 316), Maynooth, 50 S.
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"In June 2022 the Irish government announced intentions to replace the existing national minimum wage with a new Living Wage (LW) set at 60% of median wages. In this paper we review the evidence on the impact of a LW on wages, employment, inequality and poverty, We then use data from the EU-SILC to examine the characteristics of workers likely to be affected by the new LW and empirically examining the potential impact of the proposed LW on wages inequality and poverty. When examining the impact on labour market outcomes we also compare the impact of the proposed LW with a number of alternative LWs. While the proposed policy will increase the wages of the most vulnerable workers, we show that the introduction of a national LW would have a relatively small effect on inequality, poverty and the gender wage gap. In keeping with previous work, this shows how policies aimed only at workers fall short of addressing concerns about poverty and inequality; addressing these issues requires more powerful public policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum Wage: Evidence from Lithuania (2022)
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Tarasonis, Linas;Zitatform
Garcia-Louzao, Jose & Linas Tarasonis (2022): Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum Wage: Evidence from Lithuania. (Working paper series / Lietuvos Bankas 103), Vilnius, 43 S.
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"This paper evaluates the worker-level effects of a historically large and permanent increase in the minimum wage in Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers' exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact that there has been no increase in the minimum wage in previous years, to account for heterogeneous labor market prospects of low-wage workers relative to high-wage workers. Using detailed administrative records to track workers before and after the policy change, we show that the minimum wage hike significantly increased the earnings of low-wage workers. This direct effect was amplified by wage spillovers reaching the median of the income distribution. Overall, we find no negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers, highly exposed municipalities, and tradable sectors may be more negatively affected. Taken together, our findings imply an employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage gains dominated employment losses." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Turning a 'Blind Eye'? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment (2022)
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Garnero, Andrea & Claudio Lucifora (2022): Turning a 'Blind Eye'? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment. In: Economica, Jg. 89, H. 356, S. 884-907. DOI:10.1111/ecca.12421
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"Turning a ‘blind eye’ to non-compliance with minimum wage standards is sometimes presented as a pragmatic way to accommodate higher wages while not harming employment opportunities for workers employed in marginal firms. In this paper, we model firms' wage and employment decisions, and show that there may be a trade-off between non-compliance and employment. The main predictions of the model are tested empirically using data from the Italian labour force survey. We find evidence of a positive employment non-compliance effect, though elasticities are smaller than typically thought as employers internalize the expected costs of non-compliance. We also show that employment effects are larger at low levels of non-compliance (when the risk of being referred to court is very low). The implications for policy and the role of regulators in monitoring and sanctioning non-compliance are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Heterogeneous employment effects of minimum wage policies (2022)
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Majchrowska, Aleksandra & Pawel Strawinski (2022): Heterogeneous employment effects of minimum wage policies. (Working papers / Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw 2022-18), Warsaw, 40 S.
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"We explain the variations in the employment effects with respect to minimum wage changes among different groups of workers. Prior analyses considered only two dimensions, investigating employment effects over time across groups of workers or regions. We propose a multidimensional panel data approach to simultaneously analyze the heterogeneous employment effects of minimum wage changes across age groups, economic sectors, and regions over time. Latent heterogeneities in regional employment reactions are discovered, indicating that the employment effect in the regional labor market is the result of a combination of specific labor market features related to the composition of workers and employers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does public sector employment buffer the minimum wage effects? (2022)
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Navarro, Lucas & Mauricio M. Tejada (2022): Does public sector employment buffer the minimum wage effects? In: Review of Economic Dynamics, Jg. 43, S. 168-196. DOI:10.1016/j.red.2021.02.004
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"This paper studies the impact of a minimum wage policy in a labor market with a private and a public sector. We develop a two-sector search and matching model with minimum wage and heterogeneous workers in their human capital. We structurally estimate the model using data for Chile, a country with a large fraction of employment in the public sector and a binding minimum wage. Counterfactual analysis shows that institutional features of public sector employment reduce labor market frictions and mitigate the negative effect of the minimum wage on unemployment and welfare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))
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Employment and distributional effects of Greece's national minimum wage (2022)
Roupakias, Stelios;Zitatform
Roupakias, Stelios (2022): Employment and distributional effects of Greece's national minimum wage. (MPRA paper / University Library of Munich 114244), München: University Library of Munich, Germany, 23 S.
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"This paper provides explores the short-run effects of minimum wage policies on the distribution of earnings and employment. We exploit the variation in the 'bite' of the minimum wage across region-industry cells, employing data from the Greek Labour Force Survey over the period 2016-2020. Using a Difference-in-Differences strategy, we estimate unconditional quantile regressions that yield economically important effects up to the 40th quantile of the earnings distribution. Importantly, we find that this does not come at the expense of disemployment effects, either at the extensive or at the intensive margin. Interestingly, there is some evidence that an increase in the minimum wage intensity is correlated with higher female employment. We attribute this finding to the fact that female labour markets are usually less competitive" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Distribution and Determinants of Minimum Wage Rates (2022)
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Schmillen, Achim, Michael Stops & Dewen Wang (2022): The Distribution and Determinants of Minimum Wage Rates. In: World Bank (Hrsg.) (2022): Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China, S. 147-172.
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"While many analysts have studied the effects of minimum wage rates on wages, employment, and other outcome variables, the distribution and determinants of minimum wages have received less attention. To shed some light on these issues, the authors use a highly disaggregated macro panel of county-level minimum wage rates and other highly disaggregated macro variables from 2005 to 2014 to investigate the distribution of minimum wages in China and the processes used to adjust them. We use spatial econometrics techniques to study the roles of both central mechanisms and spatial interaction effects between subnational governments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of the minimum wage on the characteristics of new establishments: Evidence from South Korea (2021)
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Baek, Jisun, Changkeun Lee & WooRam Park (2021): The impact of the minimum wage on the characteristics of new establishments: Evidence from South Korea. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 72. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102059
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"This paper examines how the minimum wage affects the characteristics of new establishments. We utilize the introduction of a minimum wage of South Korea in 1988 and exploit a data covering the universe of new plants subject to this law. From difference-in-differences analyses, we first confirm that the introduction of the minimum wage caused new plants to remit higher remuneration to workers. Due to the minimum wage, new plants tended to start with fewer employees and to equip their employees with more capital. Finally, we find that the minimum wage led to higher labor productivity among entering plants." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))
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The differentiated effects of minimum wage reforms on unemployment Evidence from the Greek labor market (2021)
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Bechlioulis, Alexandros & Michael Chletsos (2021): The differentiated effects of minimum wage reforms on unemployment Evidence from the Greek labor market. (MPRA paper / University Library of Munich 109327), München, 27 S.
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"The paper studies the relative effect between two groups, a treatment group of low-wage workers and a control group of high-wage workers, when a minimum wage reform is introduced. The empirical analysis uses a rich dataset from the Greek labor market over the period between 2010 and 2020. The study examines whether the employees' responses and the potential effects of two different minimum wage reforms on unemployment were heterogenous. Our results are straightforward: among the two groups, the relative possibility of job loss is associated with an increase in the minimum wage, while the relative possibility of job search difficulty is strongly affected by a minimum wage cut. The former result is getting worse for employees who engaged in a minimum wage-intensive sector in the previous year and are now inactive. The latter result is reinforced for very young workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Young Bunch: Youth Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes (2021)
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Bezooijen, Emiel van, Wiljan van den Berge & Anna Salomons (2021): The Young Bunch: Youth Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes. (CPB discussion paper / CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis 422), Den Haag, 53 S. DOI:10.34932/r1bs-x580
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"The 2017 increase in the Dutch youth minimum wage has improved labor market outcomes for low-paid young workers. In particular, these workers' average wage has risen with 4% without adverse effects on employment or hours worked. These are the key findings of new research on the impact of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes. Minimum wage increases were proposed by several political parties during the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2021, with the aim of increasing job quality in low-paid work. Minimum wages are also a topic of discussion internationally: the United States is witnessing an active campaign for raising minimum wages, and in other countries, such as Germany, minimum wages have recently been introduced or increased. Although many young workers are employed in low-paid jobs, only a relatively small group earns exactly the minimum wage: around 10% in the Netherlands. However, the Dutch minimum wage increase has also boosted incomes of low-paid young workers earning more than the minimum: these so-called spillovers account for 75% of the total wage increase. Further, labor market outcomes have improved most strongly for low-paid young full-time workers who are not enrolled in education: this is important as these workers are less likely to be transient occupants of low-paid jobs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage versus the earned income tax credit for reducing povert: Enhancing the earned income tax credit would do more to reduce poverty, at less cost, than increasing the minimum wage (2021)
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Burkhauser, Richard V. & Kevin Corinth (2021): The minimum wage versus the earned income tax credit for reducing povert. Enhancing the earned income tax credit would do more to reduce poverty, at less cost, than increasing the minimum wage. (IZA world of Labor 153,2), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.153.v2
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"Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that they do so. Most workers who gain from minimum wage increases do not live in poor (or near-poor) families, while some who do live in poor families lose their job as a result of such increases. The earned income tax credit is an effective way to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, the tax credit increases with the number of dependent children, and evidence shows that it increases labor force participation and employment in these families." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage, informal pay and tax enforcement (2021)
Bíró, Anikó; Sándor, László; Prinz, Daniel;Zitatform
Bíró, Anikó, Daniel Prinz & László Sándor (2021): The minimum wage, informal pay and tax enforcement. (IFS working paper / Institute for Fiscal Studies 2021,41), London, 77 S.
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"We study the taxation of the minimum wage in an environment with imperfect enforcement and informality. We leverage an increase in the audit threat for earnings below a reporting threshold at twice the minimum wage in Hungary and estimate reporting and employment responses with administrative panel data. Using bunching estimators and difference-in-differences methods, we show that a substantial share of those who report earning the minimum wage earn at least the same amount off the books. When enforcement is imperfect, a taxed minimum wage serves as a backstop on underreporting and recovers some revenue but also increases informality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages (2021)
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Chorna, Olena (2021): Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages. In: Prague Economic Papers, Jg. 30, H. 4, S. 402-425. DOI:10.18267/j.pep.773
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"We investigate how increases in minimum wage affect various firm-level characteristics. We study firm-level data from Poland, where the minimum wage experienced a large and persistent increase in 2008 and 2009. We show that firms which were more exposed to the minimum wage increase faced higher increases in total labour costs and larger reductions in profitability. Intuitively, higher total labour costs driven by higher minimum wages directly reduce firm profits in the absence of price adjustments. We also show that the sharp increases in the minimum wage increased capital and decreased overall labour productivity and employment. The impact of policy is statistically significant only on capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Turning a "Blind Eye"? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment (2021)
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Garnero, Andrea & Claudio Lucifora (2021): Turning a "Blind Eye"? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment. (IZA discussion paper 14456), Bonn, 42 S.
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"Turning a "blind eye" to non-compliance with minimum wage standards is sometimes presented as a pragmatic way to accommodate higher wages while not harming employment opportunities for workers employed in marginal firms. In this paper, we model firms' wage and employment decisions, and show that there may be a trade-off between non-compliance and employment. The main prediction of the model are empirically tested using data from the Italian labour force survey. We find evidence of a positive employment non-compliance effect, though elasticities are smaller than typically thought as employers internalize the expected costs of non-compliance. We also show that employment effects are larger at low levels of non-compliance (when the risk of being referred to court is very low). The implications for policy and the role of regulators in monitoring and sanctioning non-compliance are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: a back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis (2021)
Gavoille, Nicolas; Zasova, Anna;Zitatform
Gavoille, Nicolas & Anna Zasova (2021): Minimum wage spike and income underreporting: a back-of-the-envelope-wage analysis. (SSE Riga/BICEPS research papers 7), Riga, 41 S.
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"The labor markets of many transition countries are characterized by two features: a spike at the minimum wage in wage distribution and widespread use of so-called envelope wages, i.e., non-declared cash coming in addition to the official wage. In this paper, we present a body of suggestive evidence highlighting the prevalence of wage underreporting among minimum wage earners. We study two minimum wage hikes implemented in Latvia in 2014 and 2015, and show that (i) minimum wage employees are more likely to survive these minimum wage hikes than employees earning slightly more, and (ii) minimum wage employees are more likely to switch to part-time work within the same firm than their peers earning slightly more. These effects are present in the sample of small (more prone to tax evasion) firms and are not found in the sample of big (less prone to tax evasion) firms. In addition, we show that minimum wage earners switching from employment in a small to a big firm enjoy a significantly larger wage gain than employees earning slightly more. Taken together, these results are consistent with tax evaders being overrepresented among minimum wage earners and are hard to rationalize otherwise." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in the Czech Republic (2021)
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Grossmann, Jakub (2021): The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in the Czech Republic. (Working paper series / Czech National Bank 2021,2), Praha, 36 S.
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"This paper analyzes employment effects of four minimum wage increases implemented in the Czech Republic during 2012-2017, which cumulatively increased the national minimum wage by 37 percent. We analyze outcomes at the level of firm-occupation-county-specific job cells and apply an intensity-treatment estimator similar to that of Machin et al. (2003). Our preferred specifications suggest that minimum wage increases led to higher wages for low-paid workers and did not have significant impacts on their employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation (2021)
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Yuko;Zitatform
Kawaguchi, Daiji & Yuko Mori (2021): Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation. (IZA discussion paper 14086), Bonn, 47 S.
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"We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of living. The revision of the Minimum Wage Act in 2007 of Japan essentially required the government to set the minimum wage indexed to the local cost of living, with a five-year moratorium period. The government subsequently increased the minimum wage in areas where the cost of living was high relative to the local minimum wage. Allowing for different trends in labor-market outcomes across regions in the pre-treatment period, we find that the minimum-wage hike raised the wages of low-wage workers, but reduced the employment of less-educated young men. A panel analysis based on matched Labor Force Survey data indicates that the minimum-wage hike decreased the job flows of prime-age men and women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mindestlohnanpassung und Living Wage: Was kann Deutschland von Frankreich und dem Vereinigten Königreich lernen? (2021)
Lesch, Hagen; Schneider, Helena; Schröder, Christoph;Zitatform
Lesch, Hagen, Helena Schneider & Christoph Schröder (2021): Mindestlohnanpassung und Living Wage. Was kann Deutschland von Frankreich und dem Vereinigten Königreich lernen? (IW-Analysen 145), Köln, 72 S.
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"Nach dem Mindestlohngesetz hat die Mindestlohnkommission die Aufgabe, alle zwei Jahre über eine Anpassung des Mindestlohns zu entscheiden. Neben einer Gesamtabwägung soll sie sich dabei nachlaufend an der Tariflohnentwicklung orientieren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage (2021)
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Manning, Alan (2021): The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 35, H. 1, S. 3-26. DOI:10.1257/jep.35.1.3
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"It is hard to find a negative effect on the employment effect of rises in the minimum wage: the elusive employment effect. It is much easier to find an impact on wages. This paper argues the elusive employment effect is unlikely to be solved by better data, methodology, or specification. The reasons for the elusive employment effect are the factors contributing to why the link between higher minimum wages and higher labor costs are weaker than one might think and because imperfect competition is pervasive in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Negotiating wage (in)equality: changing union strategies in high-wage and low-wage sectors in Czechia and Slovakia (2021)
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Martiskova, Monika, Marta Kahancová & Jakub Kostolný (2021): Negotiating wage (in)equality: changing union strategies in high-wage and low-wage sectors in Czechia and Slovakia. In: Transfer, Jg. 27, H. 1, S. 75-96. DOI:10.1177/1024258921995363
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"Wer Lohnungleichheit verringern will, muss die Bedeutung von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen verstehen. Dies gilt besonders für gesetzliche Mindestlöhne und sektorale Tarifverhandlungen. Der vorliegende Artikel argumentiert, dass der Einfluss von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen auf die Lohnungleichheit durch spezifische Strategien von Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgebern zusätzlich verstärkt wird. Hierzu werden empirische Daten aus der Automobilbranche (als Hochlohnsektor) und aus dem Einzelhandelssektor (für den Niedriglohnbereich) in Tschechien und der Slowakei ausgewertet. Vor dem Hintergrund der an Bedeutung verlierenden Tarifverhandlungen setzen Gewerkschaften stärker auf steigende nationale gesetzliche Mindestlöhne als Mechanismus, um Lohnungleichheiten zu verringern. Damit verfügen sie über ein Instrument, um ihren sinkenden Einfluss auf die Lohnverteilung durch Tarifverhandlungen auszugleichen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century (2021)
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean;Zitatform
Maré, David C. & Dean Hyslop (2021): Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century. (IZA discussion paper 14302), Bonn, 76 S.
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"New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16–19-year-old workers. We review the motivations for minimum wages and the changes and analyse how they have affected workers outcomes. We find that the minimum wage now strongly determines the wages of teenage workers, with the minimum wage now at the median wage of teenagers, and over half of 16-17-year-olds, and about 40% of 18-19-year-olds, earning at or below the minimum. Although we find no clear evidence that increases in the minimum wage have led to adverse employment effects, we expect there are downside risks for youth and low skilled workers' employment. As minimum wage workers are broadly spread across the household income distribution, we conclude that minimum wages are largely ineffective as a redistributive income support policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of a minimum wage change on the distribution of wages and household income (2021)
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Redmond, Paul, Karina Doorley & Seamus McGuinness (2021): The impact of a minimum wage change on the distribution of wages and household income. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 73, H. 3, S. 1034-1056. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpaa048
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"We use distribution regression analysis to study the impact of a 6% increase in the Irish minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10th percentiles and the 75th and 25th percentiles, decreased by approximately 8 and 4%, respectively. The results point towards wage spillover effects up to the 30th percentile of the wage distribution. We show that minimum wage workers are spread throughout the household income distribution and are often located in high-income households. Therefore, while we observe strong effects on the wage distribution, the impact of a minimum wage increase on the household income distribution is quite limited." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland (2020)
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Albinowski, Maciej & Piotr Lewandowski (2020): The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland. (IZA discussion paper 13412), 23 S.
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"Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland between 2004 and 2018. We estimate panel data models utilising the considerable variation in wage levels, and in minimum wage bites, across 73 Polish NUTS 3 regions. We find that minimum wage hikes had a significant positive effect on wage growth and a significant negative effect on employment growth only in regions of Poland that were in the first tercile of the regional wage distribution in 2007. These effects were moderate in size, and appear to be more relevant for wages. Specifically, we show that if the ratio of minimum wage to average wage had remained constant after 2007, by 2018, the average wages in these regions would have been 3.4% lower, while employment would have been 1.2% higher. On the other hand, in the remaining two-thirds of Polish regions, we find no significant effects of minimum wage hikes on average wages or on employment. We also find indicative evidence that the effects on employment growth differ between groups of workers: i.e., that they are negative for men and for workers in industry, but they are positive for women and for workers in services." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers, and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data (2020)
Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl;Zitatform
Fang, Tony, Morley Gunderson & Carl Lin (2020): The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers, and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data. (IZA discussion paper 13878), 35 S.
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"We use the substantial variation in both the magnitude and frequency of minimum wage changes that have occurred in China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We use county-level minimum wage data merged with individual-level longitudinal data from the Urban Household Survey for the period 2004–09, spanning the period after the new minimum wage regulations were put in place. Our results indicate that minimum wage increases raise the wages of otherwise low-wage workers by a little less than half (41%) of the minimum wage increases. Depending upon the specification, these wage effects also lead to a 2 to 4 percentage point reduction in the probability of being employed, with a 2.8 percentage point reduction being our preferred estimate. We also find statistically significant but very small wage spillovers for those whose wages are just above the new minimum wage, but they are effectively zero for those higher up in the wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and firm employment: Evidence from a minimum wage reduction in Greece (2020)
Georgiadis, Andreas; Kaplanis, Ioannis; Monastiriotis, Vassilis;Zitatform
Georgiadis, Andreas, Ioannis Kaplanis & Vassilis Monastiriotis (2020): Minimum wages and firm employment: Evidence from a minimum wage reduction in Greece. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 193. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109255
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"We investigate firm heterogeneity in responses to minimum wage changes leveraging on a policy reform in 2012 in Greece that introduced a youth sub-minimum through a sharp reduction in the minimum wage that was larger for youth. Using administrative linked employer–employee panel data and a difference-in-differences estimator, we find that, although wages decreased across all firms following the policy reform, adult wages decreased by more, whereas youth wages decreased by less in firms with a higher share of youth in employment. We also find that, in these firms, adult employment increased by more, while youth employment increased by less or even decreased and that these changes reflected mainly new hires rather than job separations. These heterogeneous responses to the change in the minimum wage across firms are not entirely consistent with the competitive model of the labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))
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How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital?: Evidence from China (2020)
Haepp, Tobias; Lin, Carl;Zitatform
Haepp, Tobias & Carl Lin (2020): How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital? Evidence from China. In: C. Lin & S. Li (Hrsg.): Minimum Wages in China: Evolution, Legislation, and Effects (2020), Singapore, Springer Singapore S. 281-313, 2020-02-28. DOI:10.1007/978-981-15-2421-9_11
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"This chapter empirically analyzes the impact of Chinese minimum wage regulations on the firm decision to invest in physical and human capital. It exploits the geographical and inter-temporal variations of county-level minimum wages in a panel data set of all state-owned and all above-scale non-state-owned Chinese firms covering the introduction of the new Chinese minimum wage regulations in 2004. In the basic regressions including all Chinese firms, the authors find significant negative effects of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When grouping firms by their ownership structure, the authors find that these results hold for most firms, the only exceptions being that foreign-owned and state-owned firms have not reduced their human capital investment rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey (2020)
Işık, Enes; Orhangazi, Özgür; Tekgüç, Hasan;Zitatform
Işık, Enes, Özgür Orhangazi & Hasan Tekgüç (2020): Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey. In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Jg. 10, H. 1. DOI:10.2478/izajolp-2020-0016
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"We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and widespread discrepancies between labor market outcomes of women and of men. We look at the quasi-experimental 2016 minimum wage increase and pay attention to identifying information coming from demographic groups. We find that the increase in the minimum wage had an economically substantial and statistically significant positive impact on wages. Despite the positive wage effects of the increase, we find no negative employment effects. However, we show that the minimum wage increase may have caused an increase in the share of informal employment among workers with less than tertiary education, especially for such workers working for small firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity (2020)
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Kreiner, Claus Thustrup, Daniel Reck & Peer Ebbesen Skov (2020): Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 102, H. 2, S. 339-354. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_00825
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"We estimate the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment by exploiting a large discontinuity in Danish minimum wage rules at age 18, using monthly payroll records for the Danish population. The hourly wage jumps by 40% at the discontinuity. Employment falls by 33%, and total input of hours decreases by 45%, leaving the aggregate wage payment almost unchanged. We show theoretically how the discontinuity may be exploited to evaluate policy changes. The relevant elasticity for evaluating the effect on youth employment of changes in their minimum wage is in the range 0.6 to 1.1." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages (2020)
Mansoor, Kashif; O'Neill, Donal;Zitatform
Mansoor, Kashif & Donal O'Neill (2020): Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages. (IZA discussion paper 13298), 73 S.
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"Minimum wages are increasingly being used in developing countries as a policy to combat exploitation of workers and raise living standards. However, in many developing countries there is a substantial difference between de jure and de facto regulation. We examine the consequences of imperfect compliance by looking at the heterogenous effects of minimum wages across compliance regimes in India from 1999-2011. We find noncompliance rates as high as 90% for some unskilled workers in India. We show that minimum wages have a positive effect on wages, without a corresponding effect on employment. As a result, household consumption increases following increases in the minimum wage; however, compliance matters. The beneficial pass-through of higher minimum wages to wages and consumption is significantly reduced in low compliance regimes. Our findings imply that labour market reforms have the potential to significantly improve workers' living standards in developing countries but only if accompanied by effective enforcement mechanisms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage non-compliance: Evidence from Ireland (2020)
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McGuinness, Seamus, Paul Redmond & Judith Delaney (2020): Minimum wage non-compliance: Evidence from Ireland. (IZA discussion paper 12884), Bonn, 11 S.
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"We use a unique question from the Irish Labour Force Survey that captures the reasons for workers being paid below the minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely identify sub-minimum wage workers. We find that 5.6 percent of minimum wage workers are paid below the minimum wage for reasons other than those permitted under legislation. This is considerably lower than estimates reported in the existing literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage non-compliance (2020)
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McGuinness, Seamus, Paul Redmond & Judith Delaney (2020): Minimum wage non-compliance. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 27, H. 20, S. 1663-1666. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2020.1711503
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"We use a unique question from the Irish Labour Force Survey that captures the reasons for workers being paid below the minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely identify sub-minimum wage workers. We find that 5.6 percent of minimum wage workers are paid below the minimum wage for reasons other than those permitted under legislation. This is considerably lower than estimates reported in the existing literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The New “Minimum Vital Income” in Spain: Distributional and Poverty Effects in the Presence and Absence of Regional Minimum Income Schemes (2020)
Plá, Nuria Badenes; Gambau-Suelves, Borja;Zitatform
Plá, Nuria Badenes & Borja Gambau-Suelves (2020): The New “Minimum Vital Income” in Spain: Distributional and Poverty Effects in the Presence and Absence of Regional Minimum Income Schemes. (EUROMOD working paper 2020,22), Cambridge, 24 S.
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"The “Minimum Vital Income” (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty – general and extreme - for all regions. The regional minimum income schemes (RMI) have been a fundamental measure to fight poverty in Spain from the regional level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate. Considering the simultaneous introduction of IMV and RMI elimination, the negative effects of RMI would be offset by positive effects of IMV, leading also to a big additional saving for the Spanish Public Accounts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of a minimum wage change on the distribution of wages and household income (2020)
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Redmond, Paul, Karina Doorley & Seamus McGuinness (2020): The impact of a minimum wage change on the distribution of wages and household income. (IZA discussion paper 12914), Bonn, 30 S.
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"We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10th percentiles and the 75th and 25th percentiles, decreased by approximately eight percent and four percent respectively. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10th percentiles. The results point towards wage spillover effects up to the 30th percentile of the wage distribution. We show that minimum wage workers are spread throughout the household income distribution and are often located in high-income households. Therefore, while we observe strong effects on the wage distribution, the impact of a minimum wage increase on the household income distribution is quite limited." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Nichteinhaltung des Mindestlohns in Deutschland: Stellungnahme des IAB zur öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales im Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen am 9.9.2020 (2020)
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Roth, Duncan (2020): Nichteinhaltung des Mindestlohns in Deutschland. Stellungnahme des IAB zur öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales im Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen am 9.9.2020. (IAB-Stellungnahme 07/2020), Nürnberg, 11 S.
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"Seit dem 1. Januar 2015 gilt in Deutschland ein einheitlicher gesetzlicher Mindestlohn. Zwar belegen Forschungsergebnisse einen positiven Effekt auf Löhne am unteren Ende der Lohnverteilung, der mit der Einführung des Mindestlohns einhergeht. Dieser Befund bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass es keine Unterschreitung des Mindestlohns gibt. Wie viele Personen unterhalb der Mindestlohngrenze bezahlt werden, ist bisher nicht abschließend geklärt worden. Die Einschätzungen zu dieser Frage reichen von etwa 483.000 Personen im Jahr 2018 bis zu 2,4 Millionen Personen. In dieser Stellungnahme werden die Schwierigkeiten beschrieben, das Ausmaß der Nichteinhaltung mit den vorliegenden Datensätzen abzuschätzen. Für eine bessere Einordnung werden darüber hinaus entsprechende Einschätzungen zur Mindestlohnunterschreitung aus anderen Ländern zusammengefasst. Abschließend werden aktuelle Erkenntnisse zur Frage beschrieben, inwiefern die Aufzeichnungspflicht dazu beiträgt, das Ausmaß der Nichteinhaltung zu reduzieren." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Collective bargaining as a tool to ensure a living wage: Experiences from the Nordic countries (2019)
Alsos, Kristin; Heuvel, Andreas van den; Nergaard, Kristine;Zitatform
Alsos, Kristin, Kristine Nergaard & Andreas van den Heuvel (2019): Collective bargaining as a tool to ensure a living wage. Experiences from the Nordic countries. In: Transfer, Jg. 25, H. 3, S. 351-365. DOI:10.1177/1024258919861202
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"Im Gegensatz zu vielen angelsächsischen Ländern haben die nordischen Länder bisher keine öffentliche Debatte über Living Wages geführt. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass ihnen der Begriff des Living Wage fremd ist. In diesem Artikel untersuchen wir, inwiefern Lohnfindungsmechanismen in den nordischen Ländern einen Living Wage für alle Arbeitnehmer fördern und sichern, und wie die Gewerkschaften an das Konzept des Living Wages herangegangen sind." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The German generation internship and the minimum wage introduction: Evidence from big data (2019)
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Bossler, Mario & Jakob Wegmann (2019): The German generation internship and the minimum wage introduction: Evidence from big data. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 51, H. 16, S. 1730-1747., 2018-09-19. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2018.1528339
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"The new German minimum wage applies a specific exemption clause for internships, where internships that last up to three months are exempted while internships that exceed three months are due to the minimum wage. Negative minimum wage effects on internships are heavily debated as internships are mostly non-productive. Difference-in-difference analyses that exploit establishment and regional variation in the bite of the minimum wage do not show a reduction in the number of internships. In addition, we pursue an innovative approach by using Google search data to analyse how the search intensity for internships changed in course of the minimum wage introduction. Difference-in-difference comparisons with other countries in Europe do not reveal an effect on the search for internship positions in general, but we observe a significant reduction in Google search for 'generation internship'. This suggests that the underlying societal phenomenon of a generation entering internships without a perspective for regular jobs has lost in relevance." (Author's abstract, Publisher information) ((en))
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Long-term impact of minimum wages on workers' careers: Evidence from two decades of longitudinal linked employer - employee data (2019)
Cardoso, Ana Rute;Zitatform
Cardoso, Ana Rute (2019): Long-term impact of minimum wages on workers' careers. Evidence from two decades of longitudinal linked employer - employee data. In: The Scandinavian journal of economics, Jg. 121, H. 4, S. 1337-1380. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12327
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"We analyze the impact of high youth minimum wages relying on two decades of linked employer-employee data and a major law change. Alternative treatment/control groups follow from two strands of the literature, namely: the one tracking low-skilled workers employed before the law change, who are eligible to a large wage increase; the one tracking employment of full cohorts, whether working or in school when the law changed. High minimum wages led to a short-run wage gain, which faded over time. They did not jeopardize employment prospects. Changes in hours worked by part-timers point to increased job attachment." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California? (2019)
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Even, William E. & David A. Macpherson (2019): Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California? In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 40, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1007/s12122-018-9281-z
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"This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPs with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage. The simulations suggest that a 10% increase could cause a 3.4% employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job loss is projected to be concentrated in two industries: accommodation and food services, and retail. While the most populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the smaller counties generally experience a larger percentage point loss in employment due to the lower wages and the greater number of workers that would be affected by the minimum wage hike. Moreover, there is substantial variation across counties in terms of the percentage of jobs lost within a given industry." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Who Pays for the Minimum Wage? (2019)
Harasztosi, Peter; Lindner, Attila;Zitatform
Harasztosi, Peter & Attila Lindner (2019): Who Pays for the Minimum Wage? In: The American economic review, Jg. 109, H. 8, S. 2693-2727. DOI:10.1257/aer.20171445
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"This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms responded to a large and persistent minimum wage increase in Hungary. We show that employment elasticities are negative but small even four years after the reform; that around 75 percent of the minimum wage increase was paid by consumers and 25 percent by firm owners; that firms responded to the minimum wage by substituting labor with capital; and that disemployment effects were greater in industries where passing the wage costs to consumers is more difficult. We estimate a model with monopolistic competition to explain these findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Living wages: a reasonable goal or a surrender of minimum wages?: An Austrian perspective (2019)
Hofmann, Julia; Zuckerstätter, Sepp;Zitatform
Hofmann, Julia & Sepp Zuckerstätter (2019): Living wages: a reasonable goal or a surrender of minimum wages? An Austrian perspective. In: Transfer, Jg. 25, H. 3, S. 373-379. DOI:10.1177/1024258919867790
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"In our short background piece, we first discuss the practical and political problems involved in defining and pursuing a living wage strategy. We go on to define what minimum/living wages mean from an Austrian perspective. We then give a short overview of (the history of) minimum wage policy in Austria. Finally, yet importantly, we outline future challenges for the minimum/ living wage strategy of Austrian unions." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Long-term responses to large minimum wage shocks: sub-minimum and super- minimum workers in Slovenia (2019)
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Laporšek, Suzana, Peter F. Orazem, Matija Vodopivec & Milan Vodopivec (2019): Long-term responses to large minimum wage shocks. Sub-minimum and super- minimum workers in Slovenia. (IZA discussion paper 12123), Bonn, 36 S.
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"This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and that it triggered substitution toward more productive workers. As a consequence, the sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The institutional adjustment margin to import competition: evidence from Italian minimum wages (2019)
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Matano, Alessia, Paolo Naticchioni & Francesco Vona (2019): The institutional adjustment margin to import competition. Evidence from Italian minimum wages. (IZA discussion paper 12714), Bonn, 27 S.
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"A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the twotier collective bargaining structure of the Italian labor market, whereby the first tier entails setting minimum wages at the contract level. Using an instrumental variable strategy and exploiting variations in contract-level exposure to trade, we find for the 1995-2003 period that, on average, the surge in imports decreased contractual minimum wages by 1.5%. This impact increases in the share of unskilled workers employed in the contract. This negative institutional effect contrasts with a nonsignificant effect of trade on total wages, with the latter becoming positive and large only for highly skilled workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The introduction of a 'monthly living wage' in Slovenia (2019)
Poje, Andreja;Zitatform
Poje, Andreja (2019): The introduction of a 'monthly living wage' in Slovenia. In: Transfer, Jg. 25, H. 3, S. 335-350. DOI:10.1177/1024258919855180
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"Der vorliegende Artikel analysiert die einzelnen Schritte der erfolgreichen Kampagne der slowenischen Gewerkschaften, den gesetzlichen monatlichen Mindestlohn zu einem Living Wage aufzuwerten. Die Kampagne führte 2010 zu einer Erhöhung des Mindestlohns um 23 Prozent sowie in der Folge zu einer neuen Definition des Begriffs und zu geänderten Anpassungsmechanismen. Die Analyse beginnt mit einer historischen Übersicht über die Entwicklung des Mindestlohns in Slowenien und fasst die Ereignisse zusammen, die die Gewerkschaften zu ihrer Kampagne bewogen haben. Unter Berücksichtigung der Auswirkungen der Erhöhung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns um 23 Prozent zeigen die Erfahrungen in Slowenien, dass die Umwandlung des monatlichen Mindestlohns in einen Living Wage nicht zwangsläufig zu negativen makroökonomischen Auswirkungen wie geringerem Wachstum oder steigender Arbeitslosigkeit führen muss. Obwohl die Kampagne in Slowenien sich argumentativ nicht explizit auf das Konzept des Living Wage bezog, wurde hier außerdem deutlich, dass die Gewerkschaften trotzdem wichtige Elemente dieses Konzeptes an den länderspezifischen institutionellen Kontext anpassen konnten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The parameters of the French minimum hourly wage (2018)
Askenazy, Phillippe;Zitatform
Askenazy, Phillippe (2018): The parameters of the French minimum hourly wage. In: ifo DICE report, Jg. 16, H. 4, S. 9-13.
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"This discussion confirms the nature of the French minimum wage: a key reference for the collective bargaining and the labour contracts of a large proportion of the workforce, and at the same time a threshold eroded by a variety of exemptions and reductions and an extended definition of 'wages'. This nature rationalises the demand of the Gilets jaunes: a 8% hike of the SMIC." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How do firms adjust to rises in the minimum wage?: survey evidence from Central and Eastern Europe (2018)
Bodnár, Katalin; Iordache, Stefania; Pesliakaite, Jurga; Malk, Liina; Todorovic Jemec, Nata┐a; Fadejeva, Ludmila ; Paskaleva, Desislava; Wyszynski, Robert; Tóth, Peter;Zitatform
Bodnár, Katalin, Ludmila Fadejeva, Stefania Iordache, Liina Malk, Desislava Paskaleva, Jurga Pesliakaite, Nata┐a Todorovic Jemec, Peter Tóth & Robert Wyszynski (2018): How do firms adjust to rises in the minimum wage? Survey evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. (European Central Bank. Working paper series 2122), Frankfurt am Main, 50 S. DOI:10.2866/032319
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"We study the transmission channels for rises in the minimum wage using a unique firm-level dataset from eight Central and Eastern European countries. Representative samples of firms in each country were asked to evaluate the relevance of a wide range of adjustment channels following specific instances of rises in the minimum wage during the recent post-crisis period. The paper adds to the rest of literature by presenting the reactions of firms as a combination of strategies, and evaluates the relative importance of those strategies. Our findings suggest that the most popular adjustment channels are cuts in non- labour costs, rises in product prices, and improvements in productivity. Cuts in employment are less popular and occur mostly through reduced hiring rather than direct layoffs. Our study also provides evidence of potential spillover effects that rises in the minimum wage can have on firms without minimum wage workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and the wage distribution in Estonia (2018)
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Ferraro, Simon, Jaanika Meriküll & Karsten Staehr (2018): Minimum wages and the wage distribution in Estonia. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 50, H. 49, S. 5253-5268. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2018.1486017
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"This article studies how changes in the statutory minimum wage have affected the wage distribution in Estonia, a post-transition country with little collective bargaining and relatively large wage inequality. The analyses show that the minimum wage has had substantial spillover effects on wages in the lower tail of the distribution; the effects are most pronounced up to the twentieth percentile and then decline markedly. The minimum wage has contributed to lower wage inequality and this has particularly benefitted low-wage segments of the labour market such as women and the elderly. Interestingly, the importance of the minimum wage for the wage distribution was smaller during the global financial crisis than before or after the crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The dog that barks doesn't bite: coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy (2018)
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Garnero, Andrea (2018): The dog that barks doesn't bite. Coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy. In: IZA journal of labor policy, Jg. 7, S. 1-24. DOI:10.1186/s40173-018-0096-6
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"This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage floors in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not negligible: on average, around 10% of workers are paid 20% less than the minimum wage established in their reference collective agreement. Non-compliance is particularly high in the South and in micro and small firms, and it affects especially women and temporary workers. Overall, wages in the bottom of the distribution appear to be largely unaffected by minimum wage increases. More effective enforcement practices are therefore needed to safeguard a level playing field for firms and ensure that minimum wage increases are effectively reflected in pay increases for workers at the bottom of the distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries?: whether raising minimum wages reduces - or increases - poverty depends on the characteristics of the labor market (2018)
Gindling, T. H.;Zitatform
Gindling, T. H. (2018): Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries? Whether raising minimum wages reduces - or increases - poverty depends on the characteristics of the labor market. (IZA world of labor 30), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.30.v2
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"Ein höherer Mindestlohn trägt in den meisten Entwicklungsländern zum Abbau der Armut bei. Die Effekte sind jedoch gering, weil der gesetzliche Mindestlohn nur für eine Minderheit von Geringverdienern gilt und den großen informellen Sektor nicht mit abdeckt. Unter den in Armut lebenden Haushalten bringt der Mindestlohn - je nach Beschäftigungseffekten, Lohnverteilung und Haushaltsstruktur - sowohl Gewinner als auch Verlierer hervor. Daher können Mindestlohnerhöhungen zwar andere Maßnahmen zur Armutsbekämpfung durchaus sinnvoll ergänzen, sollten aber nicht als Allheilmittel betrachtet werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland (2018)
McGuiness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul;Zitatform
McGuiness, Séamus & Paul Redmond (2018): Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland. (IZA discussion paper 11632), Bonn, 23 S.
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"On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from EURO 8.65 to EURO 9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of minimum wage workers. The results indicate that the increase in the minimum wage had a negative and statistically significant effect on the hours worked of minimum wage workers, with an average reduction of approximately 0.5 hours per week. The effect on minimum wage workers on temporary contracts was higher at 3 hours per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers and 10 percentage points for those on temporary contracts. We find no clear evidence that the increase in the minimum wage led to an in-creased probability of becoming unemployed or inactive in the six-month period following the rate change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage in the Netherlands (2018)
Ours, Jan van;Zitatform
Ours, Jan van (2018): The minimum wage in the Netherlands. In: ifo DICE report, Jg. 16, H. 4, S. 31-36.
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"The Netherlands has a national, government legislated minimum wage, which is usually adjusted twice a year, on 1 January and 1 July. Depending on the payment period of the firm or the industry, the minimum wage is defined on a monthly, weekly or daily basis. In 2017, 47% of the employees had a 36-hour working week, 9% had a 37-hour working week, 31% had a 38-hour working week and 13% had a 40-hour working week. Because of the specification of the minimum wage, the hourly rate varies substantially between workers depending on their usual working hours. As of 1 July 2018, the gross minimum wage for full-time workers aged 22 and older is 367.90 euros per week. For workers with a 36-hour working week, this implies an hourly minimum wage of 10.22 euros, while for workers with a 40-hour working week it is 9.19 euros per hour, a difference of 1 euro per hour. Like many European countries with a minimum wage, the Netherlands has a separate minimum wage for young workers, in the Dutch case this applies to workers who are 15 to 21 years old. Youth minimum wages are defined as a percentage of the adult minimum wage. For 15-year-olds, this wage is currently 30%, which implies that the hourly minimum wage for a 15-year-old worker in an industry with a usual working week of 40 hours is 2.76 euros." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Assessing the impact of the minimum wage in Ireland (2018)
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Redmond, Paul & Seamus McGuinness (2018): Assessing the impact of the minimum wage in Ireland. In: ifo DICE report, Jg. 16, H. 4, S. 23-26.
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"This paper provides an overview of the minimum wage in Ireland. Due to the impact of the great recession, the minimum wage remained unchanged in Ireland between 2007 and 2015, before being reactivated as a policy tool in 2016 following the establishment of the Irish Low Pay Commission." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Posted workers regulations as a cohesion test in the enlarged European Union: Divergent interests of trade unions, employers' organisations and governments (2018)
Surdykowska, Barbara; Owczarek, Dominik;Zitatform
Surdykowska, Barbara & Dominik Owczarek (2018): Posted workers regulations as a cohesion test in the enlarged European Union. Divergent interests of trade unions, employers' organisations and governments. Bratislava, 62 S.
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"The cross-border posting of workers - which operates in accordance with the freedom to provide services in the European Union - is both a controversial and topical issue. It touches upon a question on the shape of the 'Social Europe' model, which defines the relationship between economic freedoms of the EU internal and social policy, including the protection of workers' rights.
The map of potential conflicts in the debate on posted workers is intrinsically complex. We are dealing with the convolution of interests of various groups and entities: companies in hosting countries that compete with companies from sending countries, posted workers earning in other Member States versus workers in a host country who may be afraid that the long-term employment of posted workers will lead to a lowering of their labour standards (social dumping) or even to loss of their jobs. On the top of that, there are national governments trying to define the public interest, and EU-level institutions who look at the issue from a somewhat different angle. To confuse the whole picture even more, there are also some fraudulent practices like 'letter-box' companies who post workers in situations where a company does not carry out actual activity in a given country, the bogus self-employment of posted workers, and the evasion of remuneration and social security contributions (including retirement, disability or health insurance). Last but not least - there is also an issue of third country nationals like Ukrainians, Serbians, etc. who migrate to one of the EU countries on the basis of simplified procedures and then are posted to other - usually Western European countries.
The report sheds some light on the debate on posted workers - especially from the perspective of Central-Eastern European countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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The effects of the minimum wage on employment: Evidence from a panel of EU Member States (2018)
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Europäische Kommission. Generaldirektion Beschäftigung, Soziales und Integration (2018): The effects of the minimum wage on employment. Evidence from a panel of EU Member States. (Analytical web note 2018,01), Brüssel, 14 S. DOI:10.2767/816632
Abstract
"This note estimates the employment effects of statutory minimum wages for a panel of EU member states. Statistically significant negative effects of the minimum wage are found for young adults (ages 20-24), with estimated elasticities of about - 0.15 to - 0.2 in the preferred specifications. This means that a 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with a 1.5% to 2% decrease in the employment rate of young adults, an estimate that is consistent with the range found in the previous literature. At the same time, results are unstable for the broader youth age group (ages 15-24). Further, statistically significant negative effects are found for low-skilled workers that are similar in magnitude to the effects for young adults. The effect of the minimum wage on the overall employment rate (ages 15-64) is estimated to be negative, but it is relatively small in magnitude and statistically not significant. Finally, the note documents that results are sensitive to the specification, in particular to whether controls of country-specific time trends are included." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of collective minimum wages on youth employment in Austria (2017)
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Christl, Michael, Monika Köppl-Turyna & Dénes Kucsera (2017): Effects of collective minimum wages on youth employment in Austria. In: Empirica, Jg. 44, H. 4, S. 781-805. DOI:10.1007/s10663-016-9341-7
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"This paper analyzes the impact of collective minimum wages on youth employment for 14 sectors of the Austrian economy, taking into account the possibility of nonlinearity. We find that when the real index of minimum wage rises above a certain point, negative employment effects for young individuals (aged between 19 and 25 years) can be expected in Austria. In five of seven market sectors the minimum wage lies above the optimal level that maximizes the employment of young workers." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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10 Euro sind das Mindeste! Fakten zu Niedrigeinkommen und Mindestlohn (2017)
Csoka, Bettina;Zitatform
Csoka, Bettina (2017): 10 Euro sind das Mindeste! Fakten zu Niedrigeinkommen und Mindestlohn. In: WISO, Jg. 40, H. 3, S. 31-47.
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"Niedrigeinkommen, Mindestlohn, Working Poor sind Begriffe, die insbesondere in der Lohn- und auch Sozialpolitik eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Von Teilen der (österreichischen) Politik werden verschiedene Gruppen mit niedrigen Erwerbseinkommen bzw. Transferleistungen gegeneinander ausgespielt. Aber es gibt auch die sozialpartnerschaftliche Einigung auf flächendeckend 1500 Euro kollektivvertraglichen Mindestlohn in Österreich. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Situation des Mindestlohnsektors in Österreich und die analysiert die Auswirkung seiner kollektivvertraglichen Anhebung." (Autorenreferat, © ISW-Linz)
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Statutory minimum wages in the EU 2017 (2017)
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Fric, Karel (2017): Statutory minimum wages in the EU 2017. Dublin, 29 S.
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"In 22 out of 28 EU Member States, a generally applicable statutory minimum wage exists; the level of this minimum wage varies greatly from one country to another. This article provides information on statutory minimum wage levels, how the minimum wage has been determined for 2017 and minimum wage coverage across the EU. The data show that the minimum wage grew more over the year preceding 1 January 2017 than the year before." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The dog that barks doesn't bite: coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy (2017)
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Garnero, Andrea (2017): The dog that barks doesn't bite. Coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy. (IZA discussion paper 10511), Bonn, 31 S.
Abstract
"This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance to sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that minimum wages in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not negligible: on average around 10% of workers are paid one fifth less than the reference minimum wage. Non-compliance is particularly high in the South and in micro and small firms and it affects especially women and temporary workers. Overall, wages in the bottom of the distribution appear to be largely unaffected by minimum wage increases. More effective enforcement practices are therefore needed to safeguard a level playing field for firms and ensure that minimum wage increases are effectively reflected into pay increases for workers at the bottom of the distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How does the minimum wage affect firm investments in fixed and human capital?: Evidence from China (2017)
Haepp, Tobias; Lin, Carl;Zitatform
Haepp, Tobias & Carl Lin (2017): How does the minimum wage affect firm investments in fixed and human capital? Evidence from China. In: Review of development economics, Jg. 21, H. 4, S. 1057-1080., 2016-12-19. DOI:10.1111/rode.12296
Abstract
"This paper empirically analyzes the impact of Chinese minimum wage regulations on the firm decision to invest in physical and human capital. We exploit the geographical and inter-temporal variations of county-level minimum wages in a panel data set of all state-owned and all above-scale non-state-owned Chinese firms covering the introduction of the new Chinese minimum wage regulations in 2004. In our basic regressions including all Chinese firms, we find significant negative effects of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When grouping firms by their ownership structure, we find that these results hold for most firms. Foreign-owned firms are an exception to some extent, because the likelihood that they invest in human capital has not decreased in response to the policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Price floors and employer preferences: evidence from a minimum wage experiment (2017)
Horton, John J.;Zitatform
Horton, John J. (2017): Price floors and employer preferences. Evidence from a minimum wage experiment. (CESifo working paper 6548), München, 76 S.
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"Minimum hourly wages were randomly imposed on firms posting job openings in an online labor market. A higher minimum wage raised the wages of hired workers substantially. However, there was some reduction in hiring and large reductions in hours-worked. Treated firms hired more productive workers, which can explain, in part, the reduction in hours-worked: with more productive workers, projects were completed in less time. At the conclusion of the experiment, the platform imposed a market-wide minimum wage. A difference-in-differences analysis shows that, in equilibrium, firms still substitute towards more productive workers, adversely affecting less productive workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages in a segmented labor market: evidence from South Africa (2017)
Millea, Meghan J.; Rezek, Jon P.; Pitts, Joshua; Shoup, Brian;Zitatform
Millea, Meghan J., Jon P. Rezek, Brian Shoup & Joshua Pitts (2017): Minimum wages in a segmented labor market. Evidence from South Africa. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 38, H. 3, S. 335-359. DOI:10.1007/s12122-017-9241-z
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"The segmented labor market model describes the impacts of minimum wages on covered and uncovered sectors. This paper examines the impacts of an industry-specific minimum wage in South Africa, a state characterized by high unemployment, a robust union movement, and the presence of a large informal sector. Under the industry-specific wage law, formal agricultural and household workers are covered, while workers in other sectors are not. The unique aspect of this paper lies in the ability to compare the impacts of minimum wage legislation on formal covered, informal covered, formal uncovered, and informal uncovered workers. This natural experiment allows us to test whether industry-specific minimum wage legislation leads to higher wages, whether wage increases are restricted solely to covered formal sectors or if there are spillover effects, and whether such legislation manifests in disemployment effects. We find evidence of higher wages yet disemployment among black workers in formal markets. In informal markets we find no employment effects, but higher wages in formal markets appear to have spilled over into informal markets in covered sectors." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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The interplay between the minimum wage and collective bargaining in the Netherlands: An overview and a case study of three sectors (2017)
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de Beer, Paul, Wike Been & Wiemer Salverda (2017): The interplay between the minimum wage and collective bargaining in the Netherlands. An overview and a case study of three sectors. (AIAS working paper 173), Amsterdam, 89 S.
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"This paper aims to provide a detailed picture in three parts of the statutory minimum wage in the Netherlands that provides a legally minimum level of pay which is binding for all sectors. First, we show how it was legally established in the 1960s and subsequently complemented with an extensive set of youth minimum wages, what the rules are that affect its uprating and how these are influenced by trade unions and employers' associations. We examine how the level and the employment incidence of the minimum wage have evolved since the 1960s to gauge its significance for the development and distribution of wage earnings, including the incidence of low pay. In addition we consider briefly its relationship to personal and household incomes.
Secondly, we discuss how the minimum wage relates to collective labour agreements, many of which stipulate wage scales which start at a higher level than the minimum wage. Particular attention is paid to the gap between the lowest wage scales and the minimum wage, which has narrowed considerably since the 1990s under pressure from the government, and how this is reflected in the distribution of wages.
Finally, we present the results of three industry-based case studies of the role played by the minimum wage, or not, in the daily practice of collective wage and employment bargaining regarding both the minimum wage itself and the lowest wage scales of collective agreements in three particular industries: metal manufacturing, cleaning and super markets.
We end with a brief appraisal of the changes and the future role of the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Wage distribution spill-overs from minimum wage increases in France (2017)
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Europäische Kommission. Generaldirektion Beschäftigung, Soziales und Integration (2017): Wage distribution spill-overs from minimum wage increases in France. (Analytical webnote 2017,01), Brüssel, 12 S.
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"This note analyses the impact of an increase in the minimum wage in France on the overall wage distribution for the period 2007 to 2012. It is based on EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, a unique source that contains detailed information on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage as a wage policy tool in Japan (2016)
Aoyagi, Chie; Tawk, Nour; Ganelli, Giovanni;Zitatform
Aoyagi, Chie, Giovanni Ganelli & Nour Tawk (2016): Minimum wage as a wage policy tool in Japan. (IMF working paper 2016,232), Washington, DC, 19 S.
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"Using prefectural data, we study the potential impact on wage dynamics of the planned minimum wage increase policy in Japan. Our main result is that stepping up minimum wage growth from 2 to the planned 3 percent per year could raise wage growth by 0.5 percent annually. Given Japan's need for income policies to generate vigorous wage-price dynamics, reflecting the 2 percent inflation target, one policy implication of this finding is that, while the minimum wage plan will help boost wages, it should be accompanied by other, more 'unorthodox' income policies, such as a 'soft target' for private sector wage growth through a 'comply -or-explain mechanism' for wage growth and increases in public wages in line with the inflation target." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage introduction and employment: evidence from South Korea (2016)
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Baek, Jisun & WooRam Park (2016): Minimum wage introduction and employment. Evidence from South Korea. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 139, H. February, S. 18-21. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.12.014
Abstract
"This paper examines the effect of the introduction of the national minimum wage on plant-level employment in South Korea. We show that the minimum wage introduction increased the average remuneration for employees, but has no discernible effect on plant-level employment." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier) ((en))
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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market (2016)
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Cockx, Bart & Corinna Ghirelli (2016): Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market. In: Labour economics, Jg. 41, H. August, S. 162-176. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2016.05.009
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"We study the impact of graduating in recessions in the Belgian labor market, where high minimum wages protect the low educated against wage losses but possibly reinforce the unemployment risk. By contrast, due to labor regulations, the high-educated can get stuck in low-wage jobs. We find that a typical recession leaves the wages of the low-educated unaffected, but reduces their working time and earnings by about 4.5% for up to twelve years after graduation. For the high-educated, working time is not persistently affected, but hourly wages and earnings are. This wage and earnings penalty increases with experience, and reaches roughly - 6% ten years after labor market entry." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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What role can minimum wages play in overcoming the low-wage model in central and eastern Europe? (2016)
Drahokoupil, Jan;Zitatform
Drahokoupil, Jan (2016): What role can minimum wages play in overcoming the low-wage model in central and eastern Europe? (European Trade Union Institute. Working paper 2016,09), Brüssel, 24 S.
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"Many countries in central and eastern Europe have pursued active minimum wage policies and there is considerable evidence about their effects. It shows that minimum wages are an effective tool for reducing inequality by raising the lowest incomes. They can be used to reduce inequality at very low to no costs to workers (in employment) and companies (in profits). Moreover, minimum wages can have some role in increasing aggregate productivity and promoting economic upgrading. Indeed, they should be used as part of a developmental strategy to overcome the low-wage model that is prevalent in the region. However, to be truly effective in raising aggregate wage levels, it would need to be accompanied by a stronger role for collective bargaining in these countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage violation in Central and Eastern Europe (2016)
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Goraus-Tanska, Karolina & Piotr Lewandowski (2016): Minimum wage violation in Central and Eastern Europe. (IZA discussion paper 10098), Bonn, 33 S.
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"Minimum wages continue to be at the centre of the policy debates in both developed and emerging economies. Such policies can only be effective if (1) the existing regulatory system does not have gaps that allow for the payment of wages below the minimum wage, and (2) the existing minimum wage laws are not violated (too often). In this paper we analyse minimum wage violations in 10 Central and Eastern European countries that have joined the EU since 2004, and that have statutory national minimum wages. Utilising EU-SILC data, we use the methodology proposed by Bhorat et al. (2013) to analyse both the incidence of minimum wage violations, as well as the monetary depth of these violations. We find that on average in 2003-2012, the estimated incidence of violations ranged from 1.0% in Bulgaria, to 1.3% in the Czech Republic, around 3% in Romania and Slovenia, 4.7% in Poland and Hungary, 5.6% in Latvia, and 6.9% in Lithuania. The average pay shortfall ranged from 13.7% of the country-year specific minimum wage in Estonia, to 41.7% in Slovenia. In all countries, workers who were female, less-educated, in the service or agricultural sector, in a micro firm, or with a temporary contract were more likely than other categories of workers to earn less than the minimum wage they were entitled to. While higher minimum to average wage ratios were associated with higher levels of non-compliance, this effect was present within countries over time, but not between them." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage (2016)
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Manning, Alan (2016): The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage. (CEP discussion paper 1428), London, 25 S.
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"There is a huge body of empirical research on the employment effect of the minimum wage that has failed to clearly demonstrate the negative effect that so many economists strongly believe to find. This paper reviews the reasons for this and argues that the literature needs to re-focus to further our knowledge on the topic." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Monopsony, minimum wages and migration (2016)
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank;Zitatform
Strobl, Eric & Frank Walsh (2016): Monopsony, minimum wages and migration. In: Labour economics, Jg. 42, H. October, S. 221-237. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2016.09.004
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"We show in a theoretical monopsony model that in response to a small increase in migration compliance with the minimum wage will increase if the share of minimum wage workers employed in firms that are constrained by the labour supply curve is large enough. If minimum wage firms are constrained by the labour demand curve an increase in migration will leave employment unchanged and employment in non-compliant firms will rise. Using data from Thailand we provide evidence that increases in inward net migration are associated with a proportionately greater increase in workers employed at the minimum wage relative to non-compliance." (Author's abstract, © 2016 Elsevier) ((en))
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Global wage report 2016/17: wage inequality in the workplace (2016)
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International Labour Office (2016): Global wage report 2016/17. Wage inequality in the workplace. (Global wage report 05), Genf, 114 S.
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"The 2016/17 edition examines inequality at the workplace level, providing empirical evidence on the extent to which wage inequality is the result of wage inequality between enterprises as well as within enterprises. The report also includes a review of key policy issues regarding wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Partial minimum wage compliance (2015)
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Bhorat, Haroon, Ravi Kanbur & Benjamin Stanwix (2015): Partial minimum wage compliance. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0039-1
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"In many developing countries, a significant portion of the wage distribution is found below the legal minimum wage. In order to fully understand the nature of this non-compliance, we need to compare the counterfactual wage distribution without the minimum wage law to the current wage distribution. Such a comparison could reveal partial compliance, where employers raise wages some of the way to the minimum wage, to balance out the benefits of non-compliance with the costs and penalties to the extent that they depend on the gap between the legal minimum wage and the wage actually paid. This paper presents a simple model of such partial compliance and uses its predictions to structure an empirical investigation of the impact of introducing a minimum wage law for agricultural workers in South Africa. We find that partial compliance is indeed taking place and further, the lowest wages are being raised disproportionately, consistent with the predictions of the model." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wages affect employment?: evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia (2015)
Carpio, Ximena Del; Nguyen, Ha; Pabon, Laura; Wang, Liang Choon;Zitatform
Carpio, Ximena Del, Ha Nguyen, Laura Pabon & Liang Choon Wang (2015): Do minimum wages affect employment? Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-30. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0040-8
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"This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between 1993 and 2006. It shows that within firms, the employment effects of minimum wage hikes is negative. It finds significant, negative employment effects of minimum wages among small firms and for non-production, less-educated and female workers. The paper also finds that minimum wages are more correlated with small firms' average wages than large firms', suggesting that minimum wages are more binding in small firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages: Do they really hurt young people? (2015)
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Galán, Sofía & Sergio Puente (2015): Minimum wages: Do they really hurt young people? In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 299-328. DOI:10.1515/bejeap-2013-0171
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"This paper uses a significant increase in the minimum wage in Spain between 2004 and 2010 as a case study to analyse the effects on the individual probability of losing employment, using a large panel of social security records. We show that this individual approach is important, as the possible effects for different types of individuals may differ from other estimates in the literature, based on aggregate or firm-level data, hence complementing them. Our main finding is that older people experienced the largest increase in the probability of losing their job, when compared with other age groups, including young people. The intuition is simple: among the affected (low-productivity) workers, young people are expected to increase their productivity more than older ones, who are in the flat part of their life-cycle productivity curve. Consequently, an employer facing a uniform increase in the minimum wage may find it profitable to retain young employees and to fire older ones." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage violations in Honduras: Beijing minimum wage conference submission (2015)
Ham, Andrés;Zitatform
Ham, Andrés (2015): Minimum wage violations in Honduras. Beijing minimum wage conference submission. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0045-3
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"This article studies minimum wage non-compliance in Honduras, a dual labor market with high wage floors that are weakly enforced. However, rather than just counting how many workers earn sub-minimum wages, it also estimates violation indices that measure compliance at the intensive margin. I first explore cross-sectional heterogeneity in violations using household survey data. Then, I quantify compliance adjustments to minimum wage hikes by comparing indices before and after a large unexpected increase. Results show substantial differences in non-compliance across industries, location, and coverage status. Violations worsen with rising minima, but less in in more compliant sectors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of minimum wages on informal and formal labor market outcomes: evidence from Indonesia (2015)
Hohberg, Maike; Lay, Jann;Zitatform
Hohberg, Maike & Jann Lay (2015): The impact of minimum wages on informal and formal labor market outcomes: evidence from Indonesia. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-25. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0036-4
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"This paper studies the effects of minimum wages on informal and formal sector wages and employment in Indonesia between 1997 and 2007. Applying fixed-effects methods, the estimates suggest that minimum wages have a significant positive effect on formal sector wages, while there are no spillover effects on informal workers. Regarding employment, we find no statistically significant negative effects of minimum wages on the probability of being formally employed. These findings suggest that employers use adjustment channels other than employment or that effects such as a demand stimulus on a local level outweigh the possible negative employment effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Der gesetzliche Mindestlohn: theoretische Darstellung am Beispiel des Polypols und empirische Erkenntnisse (2015)
Hustert, Frank;Zitatform
Hustert, Frank (2015): Der gesetzliche Mindestlohn. Theoretische Darstellung am Beispiel des Polypols und empirische Erkenntnisse. In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Jg. 44, H. 10, S. 584-589.
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"Unter einem Mindestlohn wird eine überwiegend gesetzlich oder kollektivvertraglich definierte Untergrenze des Lohns für unselbständige Arbeit verstanden. In Deutschland ist ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn zu Beginn des Jahres 2015 flächendeckend eingeführt worden. Bis zu dem Zeitpunkt gab es lediglich einige tarifliche Branchenmindestlöhne (vgl. Schuster, 2013, S. 3). Ziel von Mindestlöhnen ist u. a. die Situation der Working Poor, also der Menschen, die trotz Erwerbstätigkeit in Armut leben, zu verbessern sowie Arbeitnehmer mit geringer Verhandlungsmacht vor Ausbeutung zu schützen (vgl. Henneberger/Haug, 2010, S. 4 f.). In diesem Artikel sollen der Mindestlohn und seine Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt theoretisch am Beispiel des Polypolmarktes erläutert werden. Im Anschluss daran werden die Mindestlohnregelung in Deutschland vorgestellt, mit den Regelungen anderer Länder verglichen und abschließend empirische Erkenntnisse aus Ländern dargestellt, die einen Mindestlohn bereits seit längerer Zeit eingeführt haben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Happy birthday, you're fired!: the effects of age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands (2015)
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Kabátek, Jan (2015): Happy birthday, you're fired! The effects of age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. (IZA discussion paper 9528), Bonn, 28 S.
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"This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The Dutch minimum wage for workers aged 15-23 is defined as a step-wise increasing function of a worker's calendar age. At the age of 23, workers become eligible for the 'adult' minimum wage which does not increase further. This creates an incentive for firms to discriminate against employees on the basis of their age, substituting more expensive older workers with younger ones. In order to grasp the size of these effects, I analyze monthly flows in and out of employment using administrative records for the entire youth population of the Netherlands. I account for the time remaining until workers' next birthdays, exploiting the fact that firms are facing a sharp discontinuity in labor costs in the month when a worker turns one year older. The results show a significant increase in job separation around the time of this discontinuity: the probability of job separation increases by 1.1% in the three calendar months which are closest to a worker's next birthday. This effect exhibits substantial heterogeneity with respect to a worker's age, showing that young and inexperienced workers are more likely to be affected by the discontinuities. The size of the effect also varies by the sector of employment, being particularly large for supermarket employees. Job accession peaks just after workers' birthdays, representing both entry of the workers with higher reservation wages and reemployment of the workers whose jobs are dissolved around the time of the discontinuity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does the minimum wage reduce wage inequality?: evidence from Thailand (2015)
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Leckcivilize, Attakrit (2015): Does the minimum wage reduce wage inequality? Evidence from Thailand. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0041-7
Abstract
"Most of the minimum wage literature in developing countries provides supporting evidence of its effectiveness in reducing wage inequality. Using minimum wage data from Thailand (1985 - 2010), I find rather mixed outcomes. The minimum wage seems to help compress the lower part of wage distribution for employees in large businesses. However, the effect does not extend to small and medium firms in the covered sector. In contrast with its role as a benchmark for wage adjustment in Latin America, the minimum wage in Thailand does not reduce overall wage inequality owing to the high non-compliance rate and weak law enforcement, particularly in the informal sector." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Impact of minimum wage on gender wage gaps in urban China (2015)
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Li, Shi & Xinxin Ma (2015): Impact of minimum wage on gender wage gaps in urban China. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-22. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0044-4
Abstract
"This paper provides evidence on whether the minimum wage (MW) has affected gender wage gaps in urban China. Several major conclusions emerge. First, from 1995 to 2007, the proportion of workers whose wages were below the regional MW level was greater for female workers than for male workers. Second, the results obtained by using the difference-in-differences estimation method show that from a long-term perspective, the MW will help to reduce gender wage gaps and that the effect is more obvious for the low-wage group. However, in the short term, the amelioration effect is not obvious." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment: evidence from Russia (2015)
Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey;Zitatform
Muravyev, Alexander & Aleksey Oshchepkov (2015): The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment. Evidence from Russia. (IZA discussion paper 9589), Bonn, 24 S.
Abstract
"We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the power to set their own minima above the federal threshold. In studying the effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor market outcomes before and after the hike across regions with different shares of affected workers. We find some evidence of adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employ" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers: evidence based on CHNS (2015)
Sun, Wenkai; Zhang, Xiaoxi; Wang, Xianghong;Zitatform
Sun, Wenkai, Xianghong Wang & Xiaoxi Zhang (2015): Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers. Evidence based on CHNS. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-22. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0046-2
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"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effects of minimum wage adjustments using a pre-specified model. We control for lagged minimum wage standard, individual characteristics, provincial population and economic factors, and fixed effects of province and year. We find some evidence of minimum wage impacts on wages and employment for limited groups. Increase of minimum wage has positive effect on wage income only for low-income workers and has negative employment effect only for workers in private and individual enterprises. While minimum wage shortens the average working hours for employed workers, it does not have significant effect on the relative working times for different income groups. These findings may imply some beneficial effects of the minimum wage policies for Chinese workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China (2015)
Ye, Linxiang; Gindling, T. H.; Li, Shi;Zitatform
Ye, Linxiang, T. H. Gindling & Shi Li (2015): Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China. In: IZA journal of labor and development, Jg. 4, S. 1-35. DOI:10.1186/s40175-015-0038-2
Abstract
"We use a matched firm-employee data set to examine the extent of compliance with minimum wage and overtime pay regulations in Chinese formal sector firms. We find evidence that there is broad compliance with legal minimum wages in China; fewer than 3.5% of full-time workers earn less than the legal monthly minimum wage. On the other hand, we find evidence that there is substantial non-compliance with overtime pay regulations; almost 29% of the employees who work overtime are not paid any additional wage for overtime hours, and 70% are paid less than the legally-required 1.5 times the regular wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of the minimum wage on match stability (2014)
Centeno, Mário; Duarte, Cláudia; Novo, Álvaro A.;Zitatform
Centeno, Mário, Cláudia Duarte & Álvaro A. Novo (2014): The impact of the minimum wage on match stability. (IZA discussion paper 8703), Bonn, 26 S.
Abstract
"We explore increases in the nominal minimum wage in a difference-in-differences setting to estimate match survival wage elasticity. The elasticity is negative and larger than one for matches directly affected by minimum wage increases, those with paying below the new minimum wage. The impact of the minimum wage is stronger for young workers and the manufacturing sector, groups with a large and increasing share of low-wage workers. Given the low-wage mobility in the Portuguese labor market and the large share of workers directly affected by the minimum wage increase (reaching almost 18%), these results call for a careful analysis of the set of policies that interfere with low-wage employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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30,000 minimum wages: the economic effects of collective bargaining extensions (2014)
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Martins, Pedro S. (2014): 30,000 minimum wages. The economic effects of collective bargaining extensions. (IZA discussion paper 8540), Bonn, 36 S.
Abstract
"Several countries extend collective bargaining agreements to entire sectors, therefore binding non-subscriber workers and employers. These extensions may address coordination issues but may also distort competition by imposing sector-specific minimum wages and other work conditions that are not appropriate for many firms. In this paper, we analyse the impact of such extensions along several margins drawing on firm-level monthly data for Portugal, a country where extensions have been widespread until recently. We find that both formal employment and wage bills in the relevant sector fall, on average, by 2% - and by 25% more across small firms - over the four months after an extension is issued. These results are driven by both reduced hirings and increased firm closures. On the other hand, informal work, not subject to labour law or extensions, tends to increase. Our findings are robust to several checks, including a falsification exercise based on extensions that were announced but not implemented." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Ausgewählte Probleme des polnischen Mindestlohns (2013)
Aumann, Annemarie;Zitatform
Aumann, Annemarie (2013): Ausgewählte Probleme des polnischen Mindestlohns. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht, Jg. 27, H. 1, S. 18-31.
Abstract
"Vor dem Hintergrund der in Deutschland anhaltenden Diskussion' über die Einführung eines branchenübergreifenden gesetzlichen Mindestentgelts lohnt der Blick über die Landesgrenzen hinaus auf die Lösungen, die in anderen Staaten gewählt wurden. Weltweit haben mehr als 100 Staaten einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn;2 dazu gehören auch 21 von 28 Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union. Die Höhe des Mindestlohns variiert dabei innerhalb der Union beträchtlich - die Spanne reicht von 0,80 EURO/Stunde in Bulgarien bis 10,41 EURO/Stunde in Luxemburg.3 Auch in Polen hat der gesetzliche branchenübergreifende Mindestlohn eine lange Tradition. Während er vor 1989 künstlich auf niedrigem Niveau gehalten wurde, weil er hauptsächlich als Referenzgröße für die Berechnung von Löhnen in staatlichen Unternehmen diente und ein Mechanismus zur Indexbindung in Inflationszeiten war, ist er heute ein wichtiges Instrument staatlicher Arbeitspolitik.4 Der polnische Gesetzgeber hat sich dabei für einen Festsetzungsmechanismus entschieden, der in jüngerer Zeit Gegenstand der Fachdiskussion geworden ist. Rechtsgrundlagen, Ausgestaltung und Kritik dieses Modells sind Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrags." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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