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.
Dieses Themendossier dokumentiert die Diskussion rund um die Einführung des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns in Deutschland und die Ergebnisse empirischer Forschung der zu flächendeckenden und branchenspezifischen Mindestlöhnen. Mit dem Filter „Autorenschaft“ können Sie auf IAB-(Mit-)Autorenschaft eingrenzen.
- Grundsätzliches zum flächendeckenden Mindestlohn
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf Personengruppen
- Ausnahmen vom flächendeckenden Mindestlohn u.a. für
- Ausweichreaktionen auf Mindestlöhne in Deutschland
- Bundesländer
- Branchenspezifische Mindestlöhne und deren Auswirkungen auf
- Mindestlohn in anderen Ländern
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Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina (2026)
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Abbate, Nicolás & Bruno Jiménez (2026): Do minimum wage hikes lead to employment destruction? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina. In: Journal of Development Economics, Jg. 178. DOI:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103558
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"In this study, we examine the impact of eight minimum wage increases in Argentina during the early 21st century by analyzing administrative records of registered employment. Utilizing a regression discontinuity design, we compare job separation rates between a group affected by the minimum wage hikes and a control group slightly out of their legal scope. Our findings indicate that, overall, these minimum wage hikes had no significant impact on separation rates. However, the 2008 increase triggered a 4.8 percentage point (19%) decrease in separations, casting doubt on the disemployment effects of minimum wages. Overall, these findings suggest that during economic upswings, minimum wage increases may have little to no adverse impact on job destruction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
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Minimum wage effects: adjustment through labour market dynamics and alternative work arrangements: A report for the Low Pay Commission (2025)
Albagli, Pinjas; Costa, Rui; Machin, Stephen;Zitatform
Albagli, Pinjas, Rui Costa & Stephen Machin (2025): Minimum wage effects: adjustment through labour market dynamics and alternative work arrangements. A report for the Low Pay Commission. (CEP report 49), London: Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, 96 S.
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"This report investigates the UK's 2016 National Living Wage (NLW) introduction, focusing on firm adjustment through labour market transitions and job contract amendments. The NLW boosted worker wages, and whilst there was no change in total employment, firms adjusted through changes in employment composition and by altering employment contracts. The NLW spurred increased transitions from temporary to permanent roles, reduced underemployment, and shifted workers away from non-standard arrangements like part-time roles. However, a modest rise in zero-hour contracts among exposed workers reflects the nuanced nature of these adjustments. These contract changes, and shifts in composition and transition dynamics, provide insights into ways in which employers adjustment to cost shocks induced by minimum wage increases, and how at the same time they maintain employment stability and reshape within-firm job and career structures." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Payroll Tax Reductions on Low Wages and Minimum Wage in France (2025)
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Albertini, Julien, Arthur Poirier & Anthony Terriau (2025): Payroll Tax Reductions on Low Wages and Minimum Wage in France. (Working paper / GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne 202501), Lyon ; Saint-Étienne, 44 S.
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"Introduced in France in the 1990s to reduce the cost of low-skilled labor, payroll tax reductions on low wages were later expanded and extended to higher wages. This study evaluates the impact of the current payroll tax schedule on employment, fiscal surplus, and welfare. We develop a life-cycle matching model in which workers are heterogeneous in terms of age, education, human capital, family status, hours worked and idiosyncratic productivity, and where search effort, hiring and separations are endogenous. Accounting for interactions with the socio-fiscal system, we demonstrate that reducing payroll tax cuts for low wages would result in declines in both employment and fiscal surplus. Furthermore, we show that increasing the minimum wage would significantly reduce employment and fiscal surplus, with the magnitude of the effect depending on whether the payroll tax schedule and other socio-fiscal measures are indexed to the minimum wage. Lastly, we identify the optimal payroll tax schedule, revealing that employment, fiscal surplus, and welfare can all be improved by increasing payroll tax reductions for wages near the minimum wage while reducing them for wages exceeding twice the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages in 2025: Annual review (2025)
Appler, Felix; Vacas‑Soriano, Carlos; Aumayr-Pintar, Christine;Zitatform
Appler, Felix, Christine Aumayr-Pintar & Carlos Vacas‑Soriano (2025): Minimum wages in 2025. Annual review. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Luxembourg, 74 S. DOI:10.2806/6315456
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"2024 was an eventful year for minimum wage regulations in most EU Member States, as the EU Minimum Wage Directive had to be transposed into national legislation by mid November. Therefore, the regular discussions on setting rates for 2025 were sometimes overshadowed by discussions regarding the required adaptations to national regulations. Most countries managed to transpose the directive by the deadline or with a short delay but still within the year. However, in a few countries, the full transposition was still pending as of mid-March 2025. This year’s edition of the annual review on minimum wages provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments. The first two chapters present the usual summaries of how national minimum wages (and collectively agreed minimum wages in countries without a national minimum wage) were set and developed for 2025. Chapter 3 focuses on the new minimum wage regulations, providing a comparative analysis of how Member States with statutory minimum wages have implemented various articles and aspects of the directive. It examines the indicative reference values adopted, the consultative bodies designated or set up, criteria that wage-setters are required to consider when uprating, approaches to variations in minimum wages and measures to promote collective bargaining. Chapter 4 focuses on minimum wage earners and their ability to afford housing, based on analysis of the latest data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). Furthermore, this report is accompanied by two related Eurofound working papers. The first presents three country examples of how Member States have approached their adequacy assessments in the context of the Minimum Wage Directive (Eurofound, 2025a). The second provides an overview of recent research publications on minimum wages, mainly published in 2024 (Eurofound, 2025b). Finally, Eurofound’s minimum wage country profiles complement this report by providing detailed background information on how minimum wage setting is regulated and functions in the EU Member States and Norway." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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What Explains Differences in Minimum Wage Growth Between EU Member States? (2025)
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Baumann, Arne (2025): What Explains Differences in Minimum Wage Growth Between EU Member States? In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 245, H. 1/2, S. 7-44. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2023-0039
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"There are considerable differences in minimum wage growth between EU member states with national minimum wages. Potential sources for these differences are discrepancies in economic fundamentals and institutional differences in how minimum wages are adjusted. Using a novel dataset based on macroeconomic data, institutional information on minimum wage setting and data on economic policy orientation and elections, the article tests whether growth differences in the minimum wage of 21 EU member states during the time period 2000 to 2020 can be explained by a catch-up dynamic in new EU member states, by different growth models of EU member states or by differences in the actors that are responsible for the adjustment of minimum wages. The results show that across the entire sample and irrespective of actors, minimum wage growth follows consumer price inflation and wage growth most closely. Higher than average minimum wage growth rates in EU member states stem from overshooting inflation during the period of EU accession, reducing wage inequality and increasing the Kaitz index. Actors also mattered for minimum wage growth. Adjustments by social partner consensus led to higher minimum wage growth than the benchmark of indexed minimum wages, introducing a distributive element to minimum wage adjustments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare (2025)
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Berger, David, Kyle Herkenhoff & Simon Mongey (2025): Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare. In: Econometrica, Jg. 93, H. 1, S. 265-301. DOI:10.3982/ecta21466
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"Many argue that minimum wages can prevent efficiency losses from monopsony power. We assess this argument in a general equilibrium model of oligopsonistic labor markets with heterogeneous workers and firms. We decompose welfare gains into an efficiency component that captures reductions in monopsony power and a redistributive component that captures the way minimum wages shift resources across people. The minimum wage that maximizes the efficiency component of welfare lies below $8.00 and yields gains worth less than 0.2% of lifetime consumption. When we add back in Utilitarian redistributive motives, the optimal minimum wage is $11 and redistribution accounts for 102.5% of the resulting welfare gains, implying offsetting efficiency losses of −2.5%. The reason a minimum wage struggles to deliver efficiency gains is that with realistic firm productivity dispersion, a minimum wage that eliminates monopsony power at one firm causes severe rationing at another. These results hold under an EITC and progressive labor income taxes calibrated to the U.S. economy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum Wages and Poverty: New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates (2025)
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Burkhauser, Richard V., Drew McNichols & Joseph J. Sabia (2025): Minimum Wages and Poverty: New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, S. 1-53. DOI:10.1162/rest_a_01590
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"This study re-examines Dube (2019), which finds large and statistically significant poverty-reducing effects of the minimum wage. We show that his estimated elasticities are fragile and sensitive to (1) time period under study, (2) choice of macroeconomic controls, (3) limiting counterfactuals to geographically proximate states (“close controls”), which poorly match treatment states' pre-treatment poverty trends, and (4) accounting for potential bias caused by heterogeneous and dynamic treatment effects. Using data spanning nearly four decades from the March Current Population Survey and a dynamic difference-in-differences (DiD) approach, we find that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage is associated with a (statistically insignificant) 0.17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129. Our null results persist across a variety of DiD estimation strategies, including two-way fixed effects, stacked DiD, Callaway and Sant'Anna, and synthetic DiD. We conclude that, to date, the preponderance of evidence suggests that minimum wage increases are an ineffective policy strategy for alleviating poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Minimum wage and employment in the U.S.: an application of Bayesian quantile kink regression (2025)
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Chan, Marc K. & Akbar Zamanzadeh (2025): Minimum wage and employment in the U.S.: an application of Bayesian quantile kink regression. In: Econometric Reviews, Jg. 44, H. 6, S. 673-695. DOI:10.1080/07474938.2025.2451339
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"We examine whether the employment effects of minimum wage depend on unknown tipping points in the labor market. We apply a continuous threshold regression model—regression kink with unknown thresholds—to U.S. state-level panel data in 1993–2016 to estimate the tipping point and quantile employment effects. Overall, we find that the marginal effect is near-zero or mildly negative below the tipping point, and it is considerably more negative above it. The tipping occurs at 50–55% of the state’s median wage among women and 40–45% among men. Simulations of minimum wage reforms reveal nonlinear and asymmetric employment effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Can minimum wage increases narrow the gender wage gap? Evidence from China (2025)
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Chen, Jiwei & Zhigang Xu (2025): Can minimum wage increases narrow the gender wage gap? Evidence from China. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 57, H. 52, S. 8726-8744. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2024.2402953
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"Using data from the 2011–2019 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the gender wage gap. The results show that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce the gender wage gap. We further examine the impact of minimum wages on the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and find that minimum wages are conducive to narrowing the gender wage gap at the bottom and middle parts of the wage distribution, but not conducive to reducing the gender wage gap at the upper part of the wage distribution. We also identity heterogeneous effects of minimum wages on the gender wage gap across age, education level, hukou, and work unit. Finally, we find that minimum wages have a negative effect on low-wage workers’ employment. Therefore, governments need to weigh their role in reducing the gender wage gap against the potential negative employment effects when adjusting the minimum wage standard." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment of Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities (2025)
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Chiswick, Barry, Hope Corman, Dhaval M. Dave & Nancy Reichman (2025): Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment of Young Adults with Cognitive Disabilities. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33990), Cambridge, Mass, 43 S.
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"This study analyzes, for the first time, the effect of increases in the minimum wage on the labor market outcomes of working age adults with cognitive disabilities, a vulnerable and low-skilled sector of the actual and potential labor pool. Using data from the American Community Survey (2008-2023), we estimated effects of the minimum wage on employment, labor force participation, weeks worked, and hours worked among working age individuals with cognitive disabilities using a generalized difference-in-differences research design. We found that a higher effective minimum wage leads to reduced employment and labor force participation among individuals with cognitive disabilities but has no significant effect on labor supply at the intensive margin for this group. Adverse impacts were particularly pronounced for those with lower educational attainment. In contrast, we found no significant labor market effects of an increase in the minimum wage for individuals with physical disabilities or in the non-disabled population." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes on Hours Worked: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan (2025)
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Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael R. Strain (2025): The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes on Hours Worked: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17913), Bonn, 69 S.
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"In a study of recent minimum wage changes (Clemens and Strain, forthcoming), we demonstrate how analyses of longer-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to very short-run analyses. This paper uses this novel methodology to study the effects of minimum wage increases on hours worked. Analyzing CPS and ACS data with the empirical specifications from our partially pre-committed analysis plan, we estimate that relatively large minimum wage increases reduced usual hours worked per week among individuals with low levels of experience and education by just under one hour per week during the decade prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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 the elasticity of hours worked 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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Divergent Paths: Differential Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases on Individuals with Disabilities (2025)
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Clemens, Jeffrey, Melissa D. Gentry & Jonathan Meer (2025): Divergent Paths: Differential Impacts of Minimum Wage Increases on Individuals with Disabilities. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33437), Cambridge, Mass, 39 S.
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"We analyze the differential effects of minimum wage increases on individuals with disabilities using data from the American Community Survey and leveraging state-level minimum wage variation during the 2010s. We find that large minimum wage increases significantly reduce employment and labor force participation for individuals of all working ages with severe disabilities. These declines are accompanied by a downward shift in the wage distribution and an increase in public assistance receipt. By contrast, we find no employment effects for all but young individuals with either non-severe disabilities or no disabilities. Our findings highlight important heterogeneities in minimum wage impacts, raising concerns about labor market policies' unintended consequences for populations on the margins of the labor force." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? (2025)
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Clemens, Jeffrey, Olivia Edwards & Jonathan Meer (2025): Did California's Fast Food Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 34033), Cambridge, Mass, 31 S.
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"We analyze the effect of California's $20 fast food minimum wage, which was enacted in September 2023 and went into effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we find that employment in California's fast food sector declined by 2.7 percent relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the United States from September 2023 through September 2024. Adjusting for pre-AB 1228 trends increases this differential decline to 3.2 percent, while netting out the equivalent employment changes in non-minimum-wage-intensive industries further increases the decline. Our median estimate translates into a loss of 18,000 jobs in California's fast food sector relative to the counterfactual." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The eterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan (2025)
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Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael Strain (2025): The eterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan. In: Journal of labor economics. DOI:10.1086/736552
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"This paper advances the use of partially pre-committed analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of longer-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to very 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 ofheterogeneity. We discuss how these use cases harness the strengths of pre-analysis planswhile mitigating their weaknesses. This project’s initial analyses explored CPS and ACS datafrom 2011 through 2015. Alongside these analyses, we pre-committed to analysesincorporating CPS and ACS data extending through 2019. Averaging across thespecifications in our pre-analysis plan, we estimate that relatively large minimum wage increases reduced employment rates among individuals with low levels of experience andeducation by just over 2 and a half percentage points during the decade prior to the onset ofthe Covid-19 pandemic. 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 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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Minimum Wages and Human Capital Investment: A Meta‐Regression Analysis (2025)
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Doucouliagos, Hristos & Katarina Zigova (2025): Minimum Wages and Human Capital Investment: A Meta‐Regression Analysis. In: BJIR, Jg. 63, H. 4, S. 567-586. DOI:10.1111/bjir.12881
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"We apply meta-regression analysis to assess the effect of the minimum wage on two types of human capital, formal education enrolment and on-the-job training, using 892 reported estimates of these effects. On average, raising the minimum wage reduces enrolment in all countries assessed. The minimum wage has a somewhat moderate positive effect on training in the United States and no significant training effect elsewhere. There is no publication bias in the formal education and modest bias in the training literature. Heterogeneity among reported estimates is primarily driven by data differences, alternative specifications and measures of the relevant variables." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility Across Firms (2025)
Forth, John ; Singleton, Carl ; Ritchie, Felix ; Stokes, Lucy ; Bryson, Alex ; Whittard, Damian; Phan, Van;Zitatform
Forth, John, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Lucy Stokes & Damian Whittard (2025): The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility Across Firms. In: BJIR, Jg. 63, H. 4, S. 746-757. DOI:10.1111/bjir.70008
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"In April 2016, the National Living Wage (NLW) raised the statutory wage floor for employees in the United Kingdom aged 25 and above by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the share of jobs covered by the wage floor by around 50%. Using a difference-in-differences approach with linked employer–employee data from the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, we examine how the introduction and uprating of the NLW affected the likelihood of minimum-wage employees changing firms. We find some evidence that the NLW reduced the rate of job-to-job transitions among such workers, consistent with predictions that an increase in the wage floor discourages job search. However, we find no evidence that the NLW affected differences in job mobility between minimum wage workers and their co-workers in the same firm. Together, these findings suggest that the increased wage floor made quits less attractive to minimum-wage workers in firms with limited opportunities for progression." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Basic Income and the Dynamics of Employment and Human Capital in a Non-Urban Disadvantaged Setting (2025)
García, Jorge Luis; Watson, L. Reed; Warren, Patrick L.;Zitatform
García, Jorge Luis, Patrick L. Warren & L. Reed Watson (2025): Basic Income and the Dynamics of Employment and Human Capital in a Non-Urban Disadvantaged Setting. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33891), Cambridge, Mass, 54 S.
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"Why and when could basic income inhibit employment? We randomize 200 dollars of basic income per month for two years within a non-urban disadvantaged sample tracked using high-frequency administrative data. The amount provided is 21% of average all-source income. In the short term (0.5 years after baseline), relative to the control group, treatment-group employment decreases by 58%, average all-source income remains constant, and health-investment rates increase. In the longer term (1.25 years after baseline), employment and health-investment rates revert to their control-group counterparts. Treatment participants receive basic income, take time off work, address health needs, and, subsequently, reintegrate into employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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City Size, Monopsony, and the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages (2025)
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Jha, Priyaranjan, Jyotsana Kala, David Neumark & Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez (2025): City Size, Monopsony, and the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages. (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 33862), Cambridge, Mass, 28 S.
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"We assess how minimum wage effects on restaurant employment in the U.S. vary with labor market size and monopsony power. Using city-level data, we construct monopsony proxies based on labor flows and concentration. Minimum wages bind less in larger cities, consistent with the urban wage premium, and omitting this relationship overstates how labor market power reduces adverse employment effects of minimum wages. Nonetheless, accounting for city size, lower job market fluidity is linked to weaker negative employment effects, consistent with search models. By contrast, traditional concentration measures do not consistently predict variation in the effects of minimum wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wage increases induce changes in work behavior for people with disabilities? Evidence from the AbilityOne program (2025)
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Kim, Jiyoon, Michael Levere & Ellen Magenheim (2025): Do minimum wage increases induce changes in work behavior for people with disabilities? Evidence from the AbilityOne program. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 92. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102663
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"We provide the first evidence on the effects of minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes for people with disabilities. We use a novel dataset consisting of quarterly data on employment, earnings, and hours for workers at nonprofit firms that participate in the federal AbilityOne program. The nonprofits in this program are offered advantages in government contracting, though must primarily employ workers with disabilities. Using recent local variation in minimum wage changes, we find that increasing the minimum wage does not affect employment outcomes for workers with disabilities in this specific context, with precisely estimated null effects. However, these nonprofits respond along non-employment related margins after relatively large minimum wage increases." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.) ((en))
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The unintended effects of a large minimum wage increase on health: Evidence from South Korea (2025)
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Kim, Jung Hyun, Marc Suhrcke & Anja K. Leist (2025): The unintended effects of a large minimum wage increase on health: Evidence from South Korea. In: Social Science & Medicine, Jg. 365. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117626
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"The 2018 minimum wage increase in South Korea was a major policy change that impacted employment and labour productivity, but its effects on health have not yet been explored. The minimum wage was increased by 16.4% in January 2018, marking the largest increase over two decades and a substantial increase by international standards. While this policy change was a promise of the then-new government, the magnitude of its increase was unexpected. Using a difference-in-differences design with data from the 2016 and 2018 Korean Longitudinal Study on Aging, this study focuses on individuals targeted by the minimum wage policy, particularly older adults earning the minimum wage. Unexpectedly, our results indicate a statistically significant decrease in cognitive function within the targeted group, following the minimum wage hike. However, we did not observe any significant changes in self-reported health. Importantly, for the period 2014 and 2016, when the minimum wage increase was relatively modest, we found positive effects on cognitive health and no negative effects on self-reported health, suggesting that negative effects on cognition emerged only with the large minimum wage increase in 2018. These perhaps unexpected findings may be explained by a significant reduction in the working hours of the targeted group." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 TheAuthors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.) ((en))
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- Ausweichreaktionen auf Mindestlöhne in Deutschland
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