2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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abstract: 'Income inequality has been a major concern of economic policy makers for
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several years. Can minimum wages help to mitigate inequality? In 2015,
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the German government introduced a nationwide statutory minimum wage to
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reduce income inequality by improving the labour income of low-wage
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employees. However, the employment effects of wage increases depend on
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time and region specific conditions and, hence, they cannot be known in
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advance. Because negative employment effects may offset the income gains
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for low-wage employees, it is important to evaluate minimum-wage
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policies empirically. We estimate the employment effects of the German
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minimum-wage introduction using panel regressions on the
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state-industry-level. We find a robust negative effect of the minimum
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wage on marginal and a robust positive effect on regular employment. In
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terms of the number of jobs, our results imply a negative overall
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effect. Hence, low-wage employees who are still employed are better off
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at the expense of those who have lost their jobs due to the minimum
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wage.'
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affiliation: 'Pohle, F (Corresponding Author), Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg,
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Halle, Germany.
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Pohle, F (Corresponding Author), Halle Inst Econ Res IWH, Halle, Germany.
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Holtemoeller, Oliver; Pohle, Felix, Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Halle,
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Germany.
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Holtemoeller, Oliver; Pohle, Felix, Halle Inst Econ Res IWH, Halle, Germany.'
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author: Holtemoeller, Oliver and Pohle, Felix
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author-email: 'oliver.holtemoeller@iwh-halle.de
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felix.pohle@iwh-halle.de'
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author_list:
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- family: Holtemoeller
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given: Oliver
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- family: Pohle
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given: Felix
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.10.006
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eissn: 1873-6122
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files: []
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issn: 0264-9993
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journal: ECONOMIC MODELLING
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keywords: Minimum wage; Employment effects; Panel model
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keywords-plus: LABOR-MARKET; INEQUALITY
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language: English
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month: JUL
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number-of-cited-references: '37'
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orcid-numbers: Holtemöller, Oliver/0000-0002-6768-8896
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pages: 108-121
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papis_id: 4b84f8e21980da977d5b283704dcb3e5
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ref: Holtemoeller2020employmenteffects
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researcherid-numbers: Holtemöller, Oliver/AAI-3439-2021
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times-cited: '11'
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title: 'Employment effects of introducing a minimum wage: The case of Germany'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000535130100010
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usage-count-last-180-days: '6'
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usage-count-since-2013: '32'
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volume: '89'
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web-of-science-categories: Economics
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year: '2020'
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