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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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    Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage (1992)

    Card, David;

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    Card, David (1992): Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jg. 46, H. 1, S. 22-37. DOI:10.1177/001979399204600103

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    "The imposition of a national minimum wage standard provides a natural experiment in which the "treatment effect" varies across states depending on the fraction of workers initially earning less than the new minimum. The author exploits this fact to evaluate the effect of the April 1990 increase in the federal minimum wage on teenagers' wages, employment, and school enrollment. Comparisons of grouped and individual state data confirm that the rise in the minimum wage increased teenagers' wages. There is no evidence of corresponding losses in teenage employment or changes in teenage school enrollment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment?: A Case Study of California, 1987-89 (1992)

    Card, David;

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    Card, David (1992): Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment? A Case Study of California, 1987-89. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jg. 46, H. 1, S. 38-54. DOI:10.1177/001979399204600104

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    "In July 1988, California's minimum wage rose from $3.35 to $4.25. During the previous year, 11% of workers in the state and 50% of California teenagers had earned less than the new state minimum. Using published data and samples from the Current Population Survey, the author compares changes in the labor market outcomes of California workers to the corresponding changes in a group of states with no increase in the minimum wage. The minimum wage increase raised the earnings of low-wage workers by 5–10%. Contrary to conventional predictions, however, there was no decline in teenage employment, or any relative loss of jobs in retail trade." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast-Food Industry (1992)

    Katz, Lawrence F.; Krueger, Alan B.;

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    Katz, Lawrence F. & Alan B. Krueger (1992): The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Fast-Food Industry. In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jg. 46, H. 1, S. 6-21. DOI:10.1177/001979399204600102

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    "Using a longitudinal survey of fast-food restaurants in Texas, the authors examine the impact of recent increases in the federal minimum wage on a low-wage labor market. Less than 5% of fast-food restaurants were using the new youth subminimum wage in July/August 1991, even though the vast majority paid a starting wage below the new hourly minimum wage immediately before it became effective. Although some restaurants increased wages beyond the level needed to comply with higher minimum wages in both 1990 and 1991, those federal minimum wage increases greatly compressed the distribution of starting wages in the Texas fast-food industry. Two findings at variance with conventional predictions are that (1) employment increased more in those firms likely to have been most affected by the 1991 minimum wage increase than in other firms and (2) price changes were unrelated to mandated wage changes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The economics of minimum wage legislation (1946)

    Stigler, George J.;

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    Stigler, George J. (1946): The economics of minimum wage legislation. In: The American Economic Review, Jg. 36, H. 3, S. 358-365.

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    "The minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards act of 1938 have been repealed by inflation. Many voices are now taking up the cry for a higher minimum, say, of 60 to 75 cents per hour. Economists have not been very outspoken on this type of legislation. It is my fundamental thesis that they can and should be outspoken, and singularly agreed. 'The popular objective of minimum wage legislation - the elimination of extreme poverty - is not seriously debatable. The important questions are rather (1) Does such legislation diminish poverty? (2) Are there efficient alternatives? The answers are, if I am not mistaken, unusually definite for questions of economic policy. If this is so, these answers should be given. Some readers will probably know my answers already ('no' and 'yes,' respectively); it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. But my personal answers are unimportant; the arguments on which they rest, which are important, will be presented under four heads:
    1. Effects of a legal minimum wage on the allocation of resources.
    2. Effects on aggregate employment.
    3. Effects on family income.
    4. Alternative policies to combat poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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