abstract: 'Income inequality has been a major concern of economic policy makers for

  several years. Can minimum wages help to mitigate inequality? In 2015,

  the German government introduced a nationwide statutory minimum wage to

  reduce income inequality by improving the labour income of low-wage

  employees. However, the employment effects of wage increases depend on

  time and region specific conditions and, hence, they cannot be known in

  advance. Because negative employment effects may offset the income gains

  for low-wage employees, it is important to evaluate minimum-wage

  policies empirically. We estimate the employment effects of the German

  minimum-wage introduction using panel regressions on the

  state-industry-level. We find a robust negative effect of the minimum

  wage on marginal and a robust positive effect on regular employment. In

  terms of the number of jobs, our results imply a negative overall

  effect. Hence, low-wage employees who are still employed are better off

  at the expense of those who have lost their jobs due to the minimum

  wage.'
affiliation: 'Pohle, F (Corresponding Author), Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg,
  Halle, Germany.

  Pohle, F (Corresponding Author), Halle Inst Econ Res IWH, Halle, Germany.

  Holtemoeller, Oliver; Pohle, Felix, Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Halle,
  Germany.

  Holtemoeller, Oliver; Pohle, Felix, Halle Inst Econ Res IWH, Halle, Germany.'
author: Holtemoeller, Oliver and Pohle, Felix
author-email: 'oliver.holtemoeller@iwh-halle.de

  felix.pohle@iwh-halle.de'
author_list:
- family: Holtemoeller
  given: Oliver
- family: Pohle
  given: Felix
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.10.006
eissn: 1873-6122
files: []
issn: 0264-9993
journal: ECONOMIC MODELLING
keywords: Minimum wage; Employment effects; Panel model
keywords-plus: LABOR-MARKET; INEQUALITY
language: English
month: JUL
number-of-cited-references: '37'
orcid-numbers: Holtemöller, Oliver/0000-0002-6768-8896
pages: 108-121
papis_id: 4b84f8e21980da977d5b283704dcb3e5
ref: Holtemoeller2020employmenteffects
researcherid-numbers: Holtemöller, Oliver/AAI-3439-2021
times-cited: '11'
title: 'Employment effects of introducing a minimum wage: The case of Germany'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000535130100010
usage-count-last-180-days: '6'
usage-count-since-2013: '32'
volume: '89'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2020'