The regional effects of Germany’s national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. ORCID: 0000-0001-5664-3230, Roth, Duncan and Seidel, Tobias (2018) The regional effects of Germany’s national minimum wage. Economics Letters, 172. pp. 127-130. ISSN 0165-1765

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We show that the minimum wage introduced in Germany in 2015 led to spatial wage convergence, in particular in the left tail of the distribution, without reducing relative employment in low-wage regions within the first two years.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.journals.elsevier.com/economics-letter...
Additional Information:	© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
Divisions:	Geography & Environment
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification:	J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc. J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining > J58 - Public Policy R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2018 14:01
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2024 18:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90213

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