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Does the German minimum wage help low income households? Evidence from observed outcomes and the simulation of potential effects
Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante simulations (e.g. Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on …
Creator
- Backhaus, Teresa
- Müller, Kai-Uwe
Publisher
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)
Subject
- Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
- Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
- income distribution
- minimum wage
- low income
- household income
- poverty
- Federal Republic of Germany
Type of item
- Arbeitspapier
Creator
- Backhaus, Teresa
- Müller, Kai-Uwe
Publisher
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)
Subject
- Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
- Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
- income distribution
- minimum wage
- low income
- household income
- poverty
- Federal Republic of Germany
Type of item
- Arbeitspapier
Providing institution
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Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2019
- 2019
Places
- Deutschland, Berlin
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion
Source
- DIW Discussion Papers (1805)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/66038
- 1619-4535
- https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/66038
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-66038-8
- http://hdl.handle.net/10419/197989
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/66038/ssoar-2019-backhaus_et_al-Does_the_German_minimum_wage.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/FXOJQXYJJK5OTEM7XOTNDRNUAXPZTULF
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2019
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-21T09:51:58.264Z