Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333308 
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Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Economics and Statistics [ISSN:] 2366-049X [Volume:] 245 [Issue:] 1/2 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 153-183
Publisher: 
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin
Abstract: 
This article examines the effects of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage on the distribution of individual income from wages, as well as gross and net means-weighted income of workers in Germany. For the first time, data from the Survey of Income and Consumption was used, in which incomes are recorded in great detail. Both descriptive findings and the results of Unconditional Quantile Regressions indicate that the incomes of workers in regions with a high level of minimum wage intervention experienced significant increases after the introduction of the minimum wage, ranging into the middle band of the income distribution. Accordingly, the minimum wage has positively influenced the incomes of a large number of employee households.
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Germany
income distribution
minimum wage
Unconditional Quantile Regressions
JEL: 
D31
J31
J38
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