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| Title: | | The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector  |
| Authors: | | Aretz, Bodo Arntz, Melanie Gregory, Terry |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 12-061 |
| Abstract: | | This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of remaining employed in the roofing sector for workers with and without a binding minimum wage and use the plumbing sector that is not subject to a minimum wage as a suitable benchmark sector. By estimating the counterfactual wage that plumbers would receive in the roofing sector given their characteristics, we are able to identify employment effects along the entire wage distribution. The results indicate that the chances for roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment spillovers to workers without a binding minimum wage may result from scale effects and/or capital-labour substitution. |
| Subjects: | | minimum wage Germany capital-labour substitution labour-labour substitution scale effect |
| JEL: | | J38 J21 J23 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-325663 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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