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SOEPpapers 950 / 2017
We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage 'bites' into the regional wage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrast to previous studies, we draw upon detailed individual ...
2017| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
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SOEPpapers 948 / 2017
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive results indicate growth at the bottom of the hourly wage distribution in the post-reform year, but also considerable ...
2017| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
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Externe Working Papers
This study provides new homogeneous series on top income shares in Germany from the early phase of industrialization until present. German income tax statistics offer the unique possibility to go back as far as 1871 and produce series for eight German states ranging from heavily industrializing Prussia or Saxony to mostly agrarian Baden or Wurttemberg. Top income earners in Germany are mostly business ...
WID.world,
2017,
62 S.
(WID.world Working Paper Series ; 18)
| Charlotte Bartels
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We examine intergenerational mobility differences between Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the US. Using ranks, we find that the US is substantially less intergenerationally mobile than the three European countries and that the most mobile region of the US is less mobile than the least mobile regions of Norway and Sweden. Using a linear estimator of income share mobility, we find that the four countries ...
In:
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
119 (2017), 1, S. 72-101
| Espen Bratberg, Jonathan Davis, Bhashkar Mazumder, Martin Nybom, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Kjell Vaage
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DIW Economic Bulletin 49 / 2017
Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly wages in the lowest decile, the bottom tenth of the pay distribution, was less than two percent in the long-term ...
2017| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, Linda Wittbrodt
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Press Release
The introduction of the minimum wage in Germany led to significant increases in wages –– However, around seven percent of eligible workers earn less than minimum wage, with the marginally employed and employees at small businesses being particularly affected –– When one also takes into account workers who are not eligible for a minimum wage, such as freelancers, a total of around ...
06.12.2017
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DIW Discussion Papers 1698 / 2017
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications of this earnings-related heterogeneity. We find a strong association between lifetime earnings and life expectancy at age 65 and show that the longevity gap is increasing across cohorts. For West German ...
2017| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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Externe Monographien
Ein eklatanter Mangel an Register- oder Steuerdaten zur Nutzung von Forschern in Deutschland führt zur Situation, dass Umfragedaten die einzig nutzbaren Anhaltspunkte zur Vermögensverteilung geben. Zwei der vier Forschungsbeiträge dieser Dissertation beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie zum einen die Qualität der Umfragedaten verbessert werden kann. Zwei weitere Beiträge erörtern die Möglichkeiten ...
Berlin:
Freie Universität,
2017,
X, 205 S.
| Christian Westermeier
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Externe Working Papers
This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive results indicate growth at the bottom of the hourly wage distribution in the post-reform year, but also considerable ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
45 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 11246)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
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Externe Working Papers
We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutoryminimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regionaltreatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage “bites” into the regionalwage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrastto previous studies, we draw upon detailed individual ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
34 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 11190)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt