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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.

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    Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes (2021)

    Cengiz, Doruk; Dube, Arindrajit; Lindner, Attila S.; Zentler-Munro, David;

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    Cengiz, Doruk, Arindrajit Dube, Attila S. Lindner & David Zentler-Munro (2021): Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes. (NBER working paper 28399), Cambridge, MA, 60 S. DOI:10.3386/w28399

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    "We assess the effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, and labor force participation for most workers affected by the policy. We apply modern machine learning tools to construct demographically-based treatment groups capturing around 75% of all minimum wage workers—a major improvement over the literature which has focused on fairly narrow subgroups where the policy has a large bite (e.g., teens). By exploiting 172 prominent minimum wages between 1979 and 2019 we find that there is a very clear increase in average wages of workers in these groups following a minimum wage increase, while there is little evidence of employment loss. Furthermore, we find no indication that minimum wage has a negative effect on the unemployment rate, on the labor force participation, or on the labor market transitions. Furthermore, we detect no employment or participation responses even for sub-groups that are likely to have a high extensive margin labor supply elasticity—such as teens, older workers, or single mothers. Overall, these findings provide little evidence for changing search effort in response to a minimum wage increase." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Firm-level Effects of Minimum Wages (2021)

    Chorna, Olena ;

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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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    The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence over the Short and Medium Run Using a Pre-Analysis Plan (2021)

    Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R.;

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    Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael R. Strain (2021): The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes. Evidence over the Short and Medium Run Using a Pre-Analysis Plan. (NBER working paper 29264), Cambridge, Mass, 96 S. DOI:10.3386/w29264

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    "This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium- and long-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to short-run analyses. Further, our pre-analysis plan includes comparisons of the effects of large vs. small minimum wage increases, which is a theoretically motivated dimension of heterogeneity. We discuss how these use cases harness the strengths of pre-analysis plans while mitigating their weaknesses. This project's initial analyses explored CPS and ACS data from 2011 through 2015. Alongside these analyses, we pre-committed to analyses incorporating CPS and ACS data extending through 2019. Averaging across the specifications in our pre-analysis plan, we estimate that relatively large minimum wage increases reduced employment rates among low-skilled individuals by just over 2.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the effects of relatively small minimum wage increases vary across data sets and specifications but are, on average, both economically and statistically indistinguishable from zero. We estimate that medium-run effects exceed short-run effects and that the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage is substantially more negative for large minimum wage increases than for small increases." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide Minimum Wage changes (2021)

    Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei; Giupponi, Giulia; Wernham, Thomas; Joyce, Robert; Waters, Tom; Lindner, Attila;

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    Cribb, Jonathan, Giulia Giupponi, Robert Joyce, Attila Lindner, Tom Waters, Thomas Wernham & Xiaowei Xu (2021): The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide Minimum Wage changes. (IFS working paper / Institute for Fiscal Studies 2021,48), London, 40 S.

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    "We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK's National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each part of the wage distribution in low-wage areas to employment changes among similar workers living in higher-wage areas who are less exposed to increases in the national minimum wage because their nominal wages are further above it. We find substantial positive wage effects, including statistically significant spillovers up to around the 20th percentile of wages. Overall we find small negative effects on employment which are not statistically significant. We combine these estimates with a tax and benefit microsimulation model to estimate the impact on household incomes. The largest gains go to the middle of the overall working-age income distribution, though they are more concentrated within the bottom third if we consider only households with someone in paid work. The gains to poorer working households are limited by the withdrawal of means tested benefits as earnings increase. Effects of minimum wages on household incomes are very sensitive to the size of employment effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Living wages and age discontinuities for low-wage workers (2021)

    Datta, Nikhil; Machin, Stephen;

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    Datta, Nikhil & Stephen Machin (2021): Living wages and age discontinuities for low-wage workers. (CEP discussion paper 1803), London, 30 S.

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    "This paper considers an emerging, highly policy relevant feature of minimum wages, studying what happens when a wage floor significantly higher than a nationally legislated minimum is imposed. The consequences of age-wage discontinuities and wage floors higher than mandated minimum wages are explored in the context of a Living Wage being introduced to a large UK organisation through time. Between 2011 and 2019, the Company was exposed to a Living Wage Rate higher than the statutory National Minimum Wage, which was sequentially introduced into some of its establishments and had the effect of boosting wages and strongly increasing the age-wage discontinuity from age-related pay grades. The analysis finds positive labour supply responses at the age discontinuity before Living Wage treatment, but a fall in hours at the discontinuity following treatment. The Living Wage raised wage costs but did not affect aggregate hours, showing a within-establishment reallocation of hours by age arising from differential eligibility to be paid the Living Wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (2021)

    Derenoncourt, Ellora; Montialoux, Claire;

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    Derenoncourt, Ellora & Claire Montialoux (2021): Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jg. 136, H. 1, S. 169-228. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjaa031

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    "The earnings difference between white and black workers fell dramatically in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This article shows that the expansion of the minimum wage played a critical role in this decline. The 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act extended federal minimum wage coverage to agriculture, restaurants, nursing homes, and other services that were previously uncovered and where nearly a third of black workers were employed. We digitize over 1,000 hourly wage distributions from Bureau of Labor Statistics industry wage reports and use CPS microdata to investigate the effects of this reform on wages, employment, and racial inequality. Using a cross-industry difference-in-differences design, we show that earnings rose sharply for workers in the newly covered industries. The impact was nearly twice as large for black workers as for white workers. Within treated industries, the racial gap adjusted for observables fell from 25 log points prereform to 0 afterward. We can rule out significant disemployment effects for black workers. Using a bunching design, we find no aggregate effect of the reform on employment. The 1967 extension of the minimum wage can explain more than 20% of the reduction in the racial earnings and income gap during the civil rights era. Our findings shed new light on the dynamics of labor market inequality in the United States and suggest that minimum wage policy can play a critical role in reducing racial economic disparities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    City Limits: What do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? (2021)

    Dube, Arindrajit; Lindner, Attila S.;

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    Dube, Arindrajit & Attila S. Lindner (2021): City Limits: What do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 35, H. 1, S. 27-50. DOI:10.1257/jep.35.1.27

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    "Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated sharply in recent years. While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum wages exceeding the state or federal standard, by 2020 there were 42. This new phenomenon raises the question: is it desirable to have city-level variation in minimum wage polices? We discuss the main trade-offs emerging from local variation in minimum wage polices and evaluate their empirical relevance. First, we document what type of cities raise minimum wages, and we discuss how these characteristics can potentially impact the effectiveness of city-level minimum wage policies. Second, we summarize the evolving evidence on city-level minimum wage changes and provide some new evidence of our own. Early evidence suggests that the impact of the policy on wages and employment to date has been broadly similar to the evidence on state- and federal-level minimum wage changes. Overall, city-level minimum wages seem to be able to tailor the policy to the local economic environment without imposing substantial distortions in allocation of labor and businesses across locations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The minimum wage and annual earnings inequality (2021)

    Engelhardt, Gary V.; Purcell, Patrick J.;

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    Engelhardt, Gary V. & Patrick J. Purcell (2021): The minimum wage and annual earnings inequality. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 207. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110001

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    "We estimate the impact of the minimum wage on U.S. male annual earnings inequality, using administrative Social Security earnings records from 1981-2015. The minimum wage reduces inequality in the bottom quartile of the earnings distribution, and especially in the bottom decile." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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    The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968 (2021)

    Fishback, Price V.; Seltzer, Andrew;

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    Fishback, Price V. & Andrew Seltzer (2021): The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 35, H. 1, S. 73-96. DOI:10.1257/jep.35.1.73

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    "This paper studies the judicial, political, and intellectual battles over minimum wages from the early state laws of the 1910s through the peak in the real federal minimum in 1968. Early laws were limited to women and children and were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court between 1923 and 1937. The first federal law in 1938 initially exempted large portions of the workforce and set rates that became effectively obsolete during World War II. Later amendments raised minimum rates, but coverage did not expand until 1961. The states led the way in rates and coverage in the 1940s and 50s and again since the 1980s. The most contentious questions of today—the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment—were already being addressed by economists in the 1910s. By about 1960, these discussions had surprisingly modern concerns about causality but did not have modern econometric tools or data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Turning a "Blind Eye"? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment (2021)

    Garnero, Andrea ; Lucifora, Claudio ;

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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;

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    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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    Are Minimum Wage Effects Greater in Low-Wage Areas? (2021)

    Godoey, Anna; Reich, Michael ;

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    Godoey, Anna & Michael Reich (2021): Are Minimum Wage Effects Greater in Low-Wage Areas? In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 60, H. 1, S. 36-83. DOI:10.1111/irel.12267

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    "Empirical work on the minimum wage typically estimates effects averaged across high- and low-wage areas. Low-wage labor markets could potentially be less able to absorb minimum wage increases, in turn leading to more negative employment effects. In this article, we examine minimum wage effects in low-wage counties, where relative minimum wage ratios reach as high as 0.82, well beyond the state-based ratios in extant studies. Using data from the American Community Survey, the Quarterly Workforce Indicators, and the Quarterly Census on Employment and Wages, we implement event study and difference-in-differences methods, estimating average causal effects for all events in our sample and separately for areas with lower and higher impacts. We find positive wage effects, especially in high-impact counties, but do not detect adverse effects on employment, weekly hours, or annual weeks worked. We do not find negative employment effects among women, Blacks, and/or Hispanics. In high-impact counties, we find substantial declines in household and child poverty. These results inform policy debates about providing exemptions to a $15 federal minimum wage in low-wage areas." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data (2021)

    Gopalan, Radhakrishnan; Sovich, David; Kalda, Ankit; Hamilton, Barton;

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    Gopalan, Radhakrishnan, Barton Hamilton, Ankit Kalda & David Sovich (2021): State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence from Administrative Payroll Data. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 39, H. 3, S. 673-707. DOI:10.1086/711355

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    "We use administrative payroll data to estimate the effect of the minimum wage on employment and wages. We find that both effects are nuanced. While the overall number of low-wage workers in firms declines, incumbent workers are no less likely to remain employed. We find that firms reduce employment primarily through hiring, and there is significant heterogeneity across the non-tradable and tradable sectors. For wages, we find modest spillovers extending up to $2.50 above the minimum wage. Spillovers accrue to both incumbent workers and new hires, but only within firms that employ a significant fraction of low-wage workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Effects of Minimum Wage Increases in the Czech Republic (2021)

    Grossmann, Jakub ;

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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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    Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries: A microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD (2021)

    Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira; Kiss, Áron; Filauro, Stefano;

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    Grünberger, Klaus, Edlira Narazani, Stefano Filauro & Áron Kiss (2021): Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries. A microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD. (JRC working papers on taxation and structural reforms 2021-06), Seville, 44 S.

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    "This paper analyses the first-round effects of hypothetical minimum wage increases on social outcomes in 21 EU countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household survey data are described, along with the choices made to address these challenges. The paper assesses hypothetical scenarios in which countries with a statutory national minimum wage increase their minimum wage to various reference values, set in relation to the gross national median and average wage. The model simulations suggest that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality and the gender pay gap, while generally improving the public budget balance. The implied wage increases for the beneficiaries are substantial, while the implied increases in the aggregate wage bill and, as a consequence, possible negative employment impacts, are generally modest." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Minimum Wage and Firm Variety (2021)

    Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodriguez-Lopez, Antonio;

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    Jha, Priyaranjan & Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez (2021): Minimum Wage and Firm Variety. (CESifo working paper 9312), München, 19 S.

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    "Exploiting minimum-wage variation within multi-state commuting zones, we document a negative relationship between minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail-trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a heterogeneous-firm model with a monopsonistic labor market and endogenous firm variety. The decentralized equilibrium underprovides the mass of firms compared to the outcome achieved by a welfare-maximizing planner. A binding minimum wage further reduces the mass of firms, exacerbating the distortion. Workers value employer variety, and thus, by reducing firm variety the minimum wage reduces workers’ welfare even if the average wage increases." (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;

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    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;

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    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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    Minimum Wage and Real Wage Inequality: Evidence from Pass-Through to Retail Prices (2021)

    Leung, Justin H.;

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    Leung, Justin H. (2021): Minimum Wage and Real Wage Inequality: Evidence from Pass-Through to Retail Prices. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 103, H. 4, S. 754-769. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_00915

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    "This paper considers the impact of the minimum wage on both labor and product markets using detailed store-level scanner data. I provide empirical evidence that a 10% increase in the minimum wage raises grocery store prices by 0.6% to 0.8% and suggest that the minimum wage not only raises labor costs but also affects product demand, especially in poorer regions. This points to novel channels of heterogeneity in pass-through that have distributional consequences, with key implications for real wage inequality. I also find that price rigidity within retail chains ameliorates these effects, reducing the pass-through elasticity for retail prices by about 60%." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))

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    WSI-Mindestlohnbericht 2021: Ist Europa auf dem Weg zu angemessenen Mindestlöhnen? (2021)

    Lübker, Malte; Schulten, Thorsten;

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    Lübker, Malte & Thorsten Schulten (2021): WSI-Mindestlohnbericht 2021. Ist Europa auf dem Weg zu angemessenen Mindestlöhnen? In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 74, H. 2 Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, S. 127-139. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2021-2-127

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    "Ende 2020 hat die Europäische Kommission einen ersten Entwurf für eine Richtlinie über angemessene Mindestlöhne vorgelegt. Ausgangspunkt ist die Überlegung, dass die Mindestlöhne in fast allen Mitgliedsstaaten unter der international üblichen Schwelle von 60 % des Medianlohns bzw. 50 % des Durchschnittslohns liegen und damit für ein menschenwürdiges Leben nicht ausreichen. Der diesjährige WSI-Mindestlohnbericht dokumentiert, dass zum Erreichen dieser Richtwerte in den meisten Ländern deutliche Anhebungen der Mindestlöhne notwendig sind. Auch wenn das Wachstum der Mindestlöhne in der EU in diesem Jahr – bedingt durch die Corona-Pandemie – mit nur 3,1 % (nominal) bzw. 1,6 % (real) deutlich geringer ausfällt als in den Vorjahren, so zeigen internationale Erfahrungswerte, dass Mindestlohnsteigerungen in der erforderlichen Größenordnung mittelfristig ein realistisches Ziel sind. Von einer entsprechenden Anhebung der Mindestlöhne würden in der EU 25,3 Mio. Beschäftigten profitieren, davon 6,8 Mio. in Deutschland. Die Initiative der Europäischen Kommission verdeutlicht damit auch den politischen Handlungsbedarf in Deutschland, wo 60 % des Medianlohns einem Mindestlohn von ca. 12 € entsprechen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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