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    The effects of minimum wages on employment and Prices - Evidence from the hairdressing sector (2024)

    Kunaschk, Max;

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    Kunaschk, Max (2024): The effects of minimum wages on employment and Prices - Evidence from the hairdressing sector. In: Labour Economics online erschienen am 06.04.2024. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102540

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    "This paper provides comprehensive evidence on the labor and product market effects of a high-impact minimum wage introduction in the highly competitive hairdressing sector. Using detailed administrative data, I find negligible overall employment effects, even though the minimum wage substantially increased hourly wages. However, sub-group analyses reveal considerable heterogeneity in the estimated employment effects and suggest shifts away from marginal towards regular employment. Analyses of the price effects suggest that the reform increased output prices considerably, implying that consumers largely paid for the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    Human capital formation and changes in low pay persistence (2023)

    Dasgupta, Kabir ; Plum, Alexander ;

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    Dasgupta, Kabir & Alexander Plum (2023): Human capital formation and changes in low pay persistence. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 55, H. 56, S. 6583-6604. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2022.2161989

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    "This study presents new empirical evidence on the role of time trends in low pay persistence. We utilize population-wide tax records to track monthly labour market trajectories of initially low-paid workers. By performing age- and qualification-specific regressions, we find that low pay persistence reduces with time. However, the magnitude is highly heterogeneous across workforce characteristics. For a qualified worker in their early 20s, the risk of staying on low-pay declines by, on average, 5–10% points after one year. For a worker in their 50s, persistence remains almost unchanged regardless of their qualification level. We conclude that policy initiatives need to be more nuanced than a simple one-size-fits-all approach by accounting for time trends in low-pay persistence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    To Redistribute or to Predistribute? The Minimum Wage versus Income Taxation When Workers Differ in Both Wages and Working Hours (2023)

    Gerritsen, Aart;

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    Gerritsen, Aart (2023): To Redistribute or to Predistribute? The Minimum Wage versus Income Taxation When Workers Differ in Both Wages and Working Hours. (CESifo working paper 10734), München, 53 S.

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    "I consider the case for the minimum wage alongside (optimal) income taxes when workers differ in both wages and working hours, such that a given level of income corresponds to multiple wage rates. The minimum wage is directly targeted at the lowest-wage workers, while income taxes are at most targeted at all low-income workers, regardless of their hourly wage rates. This renders the minimum wage unambiguously desirable in a discrete-type model of the labor market. Desirability of the minimum wage is a priori ambiguous in a continuous-type model of the labor market. Compared to the minimum wage, income taxes are less effective in compressing the wage distribution but more effective in redistributing income. Desirability of the minimum wage depends on this trade-off between the “predistributional advantage” of the minimum wage and the “redistributional advantage” of the income tax. I derive a desirability condition for the minimum wage and write it in terms of empirical sufficient statistics. A numerical application to the US suggests a strong case for a higher federal minimum wage – especially if social preferences for the lowest-wage workers are relatively strong and the wage elasticity of labor demand relatively small." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany (2022)

    Benassi, Chiara ; Vlandas, Tim ;

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    Benassi, Chiara & Tim Vlandas (2022): Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 36, H. 6, S. 1018-1037. DOI:10.1177/09500170211024467

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    "Employment relations scholars argue that industrial relations institutions reduce low pay among the workforce, while the insider-outsider literature claims that unions contribute to increase the low-pay risk among non-union members. This article tests these expectations by distinguishing, respectively, between the individual effect of being a union member or covered by collective agreements and the sectoral effect of strong trade unions or encompassing collective agreements. Findings from multilevel logistic regression analyses of the German Socio-Economic Panel reveal that unions and bargaining coverage have distinct effects at individual and sectoral level. The analysis of their cross-level interactions provides partial support to both the insider-outsider approach, since non-union members are more exposed to the risk of low pay in highly unionized sectors, and to the power resource perspectives, since the probability of being in low pay in sectors with encompassing collective agreements decreases also for those workers who are not covered by them." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers? (2022)

    Duggan, Mark; Johnston, Andrew C.; Guo, Audrey;

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    Duggan, Mark, Audrey Guo & Andrew C. Johnston (2022): Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers? (IZA discussion paper 15020), Bonn, 12 S.

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    "The tax base for state unemployment insurance (UI) programs varies significantly in the U.S., from a low of $7,000 annually in California to a high of $52,700 in Washington. Previous research has provided surprisingly little guidance to policy makers regarding the tradeoffs associated with this variation. In this paper, we use 37 years of data for all 50 states and Washington, D.C. to estimate the impact of the UI tax base on labor-market outcomes. We find that the low tax base that exists in California and many other states (and the necessarily higher tax rates that accompany these) negatively affects labor market outcomes for part-time and other low-earning workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Minimum wage and tolerance for inequality (2022)

    Fazio, Andrea ; Reggiani, Tommaso ;

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    Fazio, Andrea & Tommaso Reggiani (2022): Minimum wage and tolerance for inequality. (MUNI ECON working paper 2022-07), Brno, 19 S.

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    "We suggest that people advocate for equality also because they fear income losses below a given reference point. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by exploiting the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW), which institutionally set a baseline pay reducing the risk of income losses for British workers at the bottom of the income distribution. Based on data from the British Household Panel Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more likely to vote for the Conservative party." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Informal employment and wages in Poland (2022)

    Liwiński, Jacek ;

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    Liwiński, Jacek (2022): Informal employment and wages in Poland. In: International Journal of Manpower, Jg. 44, H. 6, S. 1196-1220. DOI:10.1108/IJM-03-2021-0196

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    "Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labor market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach the author employs the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) for the period 2009–2017 to estimate the wage gap between informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. The author uses two definitions of informal employment: (1) employment without a written agreement and (2) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labor office. In order to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, he uses a rich set of control variables representing several individual characteristics. Findings after controlling for observed heterogeneity, the author finds that on average informal workers earn less than formal workers, both in terms of monthly earnings and hourly wage. This result is not sensitive to the definition of informal employment used and is stable over the analyzed time period (2009–2017). However, the wage penalty to informal employment is substantially higher for individuals at the bottom of the wage distribution, which supports the hypothesis of the two-tier structure of the informal labor market in Poland. Originality/value the main contribution of this study is that it identifies the two-tier structure of the informal labor market in Poland: informal workers in the first quartile of the wage distribution and those above the first quartile appear to be in two partially different segments of the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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    Trade, technology, and the channels of wage inequality (2021)

    Borrs, Linda; Knauth, Florian;

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    Borrs, Linda & Florian Knauth (2021): Trade, technology, and the channels of wage inequality. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 131. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103607

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    "We use a large sample of German workers to analyse whether low-wage competition with China and Eastern Europe (the East) affects the wage structure within German manufacturing industries. In order to identify the channels through which trade and technology affect wage inequality, we decompose wages into firm and worker components. We find that the rise of market access and the competitiveness of the East has a substantial impact on inequality via the worker-wage component. While we find no large effect of the firm effect and assortative matching on overall inequality we find that trade induced matching is relevant for high-tech industries. We also account for exposure to technological change and do not find an effect on the dispersion of wage components. Overall, trade explains around 15% of the recent increase in wage inequality." (Author's abstract, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany (2021)

    Merz, Joachim; Scherg, Bettina;

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    Merz, Joachim & Bettina Scherg (2021): Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany. (IZA discussion paper 14870), Bonn, 40 S.

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    "Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any individual activity. In particular, we consider genuine personal time as a pronounced source of social participation in the sense of social inclusion/exclusion and Amartya Sen's capability approach. With an interdependence approach to multidimensional polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a possible substitution is evaluated empirically by the German population instead of arbitrarily chosen. Beyond subjective well-being indices we propose and apply a new intensity/gap measure to multidimensional polarization, the mean minimum polarization gap 2DGAP. This polarization intensity measure provides transparency with regard to each single attribute, which is important for targeted policies, while at the same time their interdependent relations is respected. The empirical investigation of interdependent multidimensional polarization incidence and intensity uses the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and detailed time use diary data from the three German Time Use Surveys (GTUS) 1991/92, 2001/02 and the actual 2012/13. We focus on the working individuals where the working poor requires increasing interest in the economic and social political discussion. The microeconometric two-stage selectivity corrected estimation of interdependent multidimensional risk (incidence) and intensity quantifies socio-economic factors behind. Four striking results appear: First, genuine personal leisure time additional to income is a significant subjective well-being and polarization dimension. Second, its interdependence, its compensation/substitution, ev" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Conditional Earnings Subsidies for Low Earners (2020)

    Ooghe, Erwin;

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    Ooghe, Erwin (2020): Conditional Earnings Subsidies for Low Earners. In: The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Jg. 122, H. 2, S. 524-552. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12358

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    "Having low earnings is often not sufficient to be eligible for in-work tax credits. In the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Ireland, for example, eligibility also requires that the number of hours worked is sufficiently high. Similarly, in France and Belgium the hourly wage rate must be sufficiently low. This paper provides a justification for such additional conditions. I analyse Pareto efficient redistribution from high to low ability individuals in a model where labour has several intensive margins. Besides labour hours, also labour effort - a vector of unpleasant, but productive features of labour - is an object of choice. Effort and ability determine the hourly wage rate. I find that conditional earnings subsidies for low earners are optimal: the earning of low earners should be subsidized at the margin, but only if they earn more by working more hours at a sufficiently low wage rate." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Hedonic-based labor supply substitution and the ripple effect of minimum wages (2019)

    Phelan, Brian J.;

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    Phelan, Brian J. (2019): Hedonic-based labor supply substitution and the ripple effect of minimum wages. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 37, H. 3, S. 905-947. DOI:10.1086/702651

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    "This paper analyzes a new explanation of the 'ripple effect' of minimum wages based on how minimum wages affect hedonic compensation. Minimum wage hikes lower compensating differentials at low-skill undesirable jobs because they raise wages at the most desirable low-skill job, the minimum wage job. This change in hedonic compensation may cause some individuals to optimally leave low-wage undesirable jobs and seek more desirable employment. If labor supply falls at low-wage undesirable jobs, employers would raise wages, consistent with the ripple effect. Empirically, I provide evidence that hedonic-based labor supply substitution is taking place and contributing to the ripple effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The living wage: Theoretical integration and an applied research agenda (2016)

    Carr, Stuart C.; Parker, Jane; Watters, Paul A.; Arrowsmith, James;

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    Carr, Stuart C., Jane Parker, James Arrowsmith & Paul A. Watters (2016): The living wage. Theoretical integration and an applied research agenda. In: International Labour Review, Jg. 155, H. 1, S. 1-24. DOI:10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00029.x

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    "The concept of a living wage is defined by quality of life and work life, not merely economic subsistence. It extends to adequate participation in organizational and social life. In development economics, these crucial components of 'decent work' connect with 'capabilities', whose development is important to individuals, organizations and society. However, the links between income and capabilities remain unknown, and living wages are often set by fiat. By integrating theories from development studies, management, psychology and employment relations into a single concentric, contingency model, the authors derive a series of propositions with which to test this context-sensitive model in empirical research." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation: theory and application to Europe and the U.S. (2016)

    Maniquet, François; Neumann, Dirk;

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    Maniquet, François & Dirk Neumann (2016): Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation. Theory and application to Europe and the U.S. (IZA discussion paper 10181), Bonn, 28 S.

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    "In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line provided they have the same labor time. This requirement is combined with efficiency and robustness properties. Maximizing the resulting social preferences under incentive compatibility constraints yields the following evaluation criterion: tax schemes should minimize the labor time required to reach the poverty line. We apply this criterion to European countries and the US." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Do internal labour markets protect the unskilled from low payment?: evidence from Germany (2015)

    Lengfeld, Holger; Ohlert, Clemens ;

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    Lengfeld, Holger & Clemens Ohlert (2015): Do internal labour markets protect the unskilled from low payment? Evidence from Germany. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 36, H. 6, S. 874-894. DOI:10.1108/IJM-01-2014-0033

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    "Purpose - Up to date, it remains an unresolved issue how firms shape inequality in interaction with mechanisms of stratification at the individual and occupational-level. Accordingly, the authors ask whether workers of different occupational classes are affected to different degrees by between-firm wage inequality. In light of the recent rise of overall wage inequality, answers to this question can contribute to a better understanding of the role firms play in this development. The authors argue and empirically test that whether workers are able to benefit from firms' internal or external strategies for flexibility depends on resources available at the individual and occupational level. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
    Design/methodology/approach - Matched employer-employee data from official German labour market statistics are used to estimate firm-specific wage components, which are then regressed on structural characteristics of firms.
    Findings - Between-firm wage effects of internal labour markets are largest among unskilled workers and strongly pronounced among qualified manual workers. Effects are clearly smaller among classes of qualified and high-qualified non-manual workers but have risen sharply for the latter class from 2005 to 2010.
    Social implications - The most disadvantaged workers in the labour market are also most contingent upon employers' increasingly heterogeneous policies of recruitment and remuneration.
    Originality/value - This paper combines insights from sociological and economic labour market research in order to formulate and test the new hypothesis that between-firm wage effects of internal labour markets are larger for unskilled than for qualified workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Was braucht der Mensch zum Leben? Der ewige Streit um die Höhe des Existenzminimums (2015)

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    Nakielski, Hans (Red.) (2015): Was braucht der Mensch zum Leben? Der ewige Streit um die Höhe des Existenzminimums. In: Soziale Sicherheit, Jg. 64, H. 4, S. 133-134.

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    "Was braucht der Mensch zum Leben? Diese Frage beschäftigt die Sozialpolitik seit Jahrzehnten. Die Höhe des Existenzminimums, das in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ja nicht bloß die physische Existenz, sondern auch ein Mindestmaß an Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben abdecken muss, ist seit Langem strittig." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Das Arbeitsangebot im Niedriglohnbereich (2015)

    Trede, Mark ;

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    Trede, Mark (2015): Das Arbeitsangebot im Niedriglohnbereich. In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Jg. 44, H. 12, S. 692-697.

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    "Lineare Darstellungen von Arbeitsangebots- und Nachfragekurven suggerieren, dass ein eindeutiges Gleichgewicht auf dem Arbeitsmarkt existiere und dass die Wirkung eines Mindestlohns leicht zu erkennen sei. In diesem Aufsatz wird gezeigt, dass die Berücksichtigung der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen im Niedriglohnbereich zu einer nichtlinearen Arbeitsangebotskurve und multiplen Gleichgewichten führen kann. Es wird gezeigt, wie die Angebotskurve computergestützt in R hergeleitet werden kann." (Autorenreferat, © Verlag Franz Vahlen )

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    Aspects of wage dynamics in Germany (2014)

    Stephani, Jens;

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    Stephani, Jens (2014): Aspects of wage dynamics in Germany. (IAB-Bibliothek 350), Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 144 S. DOI:10.3278/300858w

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    "Die Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland ist in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten deutlich gewachsen. Gut jeder fünfte Beschäftigte arbeitet mittlerweile im Niedriglohnsektor. Zugleich gelingt nur einem Bruchteil der Geringverdiener der Aufstieg in eine besser bezahlte Beschäftigung. Jens Stephani geht unterschiedlichen Forschungsfragen zur Aufstiegsmobilität von Geringverdienern nach, die bislang noch nicht untersucht wurden: Wie groß sind die Chancen, dass Geringverdiener, denen der Aufstieg in eine besser bezahlte Tätigkeit geglückt ist, sich längerfristig in dem besser bezahlten Job halten können? In welchen Betrieben können Niedriglohnbezieher mit überproportionalen Lohnzuwächsen rechnen? Welche Rolle spielen unterschiedliche Persönlichkeitsmerkmale für die Aufstiegschancen von Geringverdienern? In einem gesonderten Kapitel analysiert Stephani, inwieweit das Lohnniveau in tarifgebundenen Betrieben - trotz der im letzten Jahrzehnt gesunkenen Bedeutung des Gewerkschaftswesens - weiterhin höher ist als in nichttarifgebundenen Betrieben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Outsourcing and the skilled-unskilled wage gap (2013)

    Anwar, Sajid;

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    Anwar, Sajid (2013): Outsourcing and the skilled-unskilled wage gap. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 118, H. 2, S. 347-350. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.024

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    "Within the context of a product variety model, this paper examines the impact of outsourcing of skill-intensive tasks on the skilled-unskilled wage gap. Outsourcing affects the wage gap through direct as well as indirect channels. While outsourcing decreases the effective wage of skilled workers in the services sector, owing to inter-sectoral labour mobility, its overall impact on the equilibrium skilled wage is positive. Through an increase in the size of external economies in the industrial sector, outsourcing can reduce the unskilled wage. In overall terms, outsourcing of skill-intensive tasks increases the skilled - unskilled wage gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Spillover effects of minimum wages under union wage bargaining (2013)

    Dittrich, Marcus ; Knabe, Andreas ;

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    Dittrich, Marcus & Andreas Knabe (2013): Spillover effects of minimum wages under union wage bargaining. In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics, Jg. 169, H. 3, S. 506-518. DOI:10.1628/093245613X667468

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    "Empirical and experimental research suggests that minimum wages cause spill-overs to wages higher up in the wage distribution, i.e., they may even raise wages that were already above the new minimum wage. In this paper, we analyze how these findings can be explained by theoretical wage bargaining models between unions and firms. While the Nash bargaining solution is unaffected by minimum wages below initially bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages - and be harmful to employment - when bargaining follows the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Minimum wages and wage inequality: some theory and an application to the UK (2012)

    Butcher, Tim; Dickens, Richard ; Manning, Alan ;

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    Butcher, Tim, Richard Dickens & Alan Manning (2012): Minimum wages and wage inequality. Some theory and an application to the UK. (CEP discussion paper 1177), London, 33 S.

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    "Research suggests that, at the levels set in countries like the US and the UK, minimum wages have little effect on employment but do have impacts on wage inequality. However we lack models that can explain these facts - this paper presents one based on imperfect labour markets. The paper also investigates the impact of the UK's National Minimum Wage on wage inequality finding it can explain a sizeable part of the evolution of wage inequality in the bottom half of the distribution in the period 1998-2010. We also present evidence that the impact of the NMW reaches up to 40% above the NMW in 2010 which corresponds to the 25th percentile. These spillovers are larger in low-wage segments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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