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dc.contributor.author | Müller, Kai-Uwe | en |
dc.contributor.author | Steiner, Viktor | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-09 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-06T13:20:02Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-06T13:20:02Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27315 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.5 per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax-benefit system and net household incomes. Simulation results show that the minimum wage would be rather ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of meanstested income support. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aDeutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) |cBerlin | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aDIW Discussion Papers |x791 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I32 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J32 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | minimum wage, wage distribution | en |
dc.subject.keyword | working poor | en |
dc.subject.keyword | poverty reduction | en |
dc.subject.keyword | microsimulation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Mindestlohn | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse | en |
dc.subject.stw | Verteilungswirkung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Armut | en |
dc.subject.stw | Sozialhilfe | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bedarfsprinzip | en |
dc.subject.stw | Deutschland | en |
dc.title | Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? A microsimulation study for Germany | - |
dc.type | |aWorking Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 571530214 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp791 | en |
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