The regional effects of Germany’s national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.ORCID logo; 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
Keywords difference-in differences,employment,Germany,minimum wage
Departments Geography and Environment
DOI 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.08.032
Date Deposited 12 Sep 2018 14:01
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90213

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