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.
Abstract
"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
Abstract
"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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