TY - JOUR A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Fedorets, Alexandra A1 - Preuss, Malte A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Wittbrodt, Linda T1 - The short-run employment effects of the German minimum wage reform JF - Labour economics : an international journal N2 - We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into the regional wage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrast to previous studies, we construct two regional bite indicators based upon detailed individual wage data from the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) 2014 and combine it with administrative information on regional employment. Moreover, using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we are able to affirm the absence of anticipation effects and verify the assumption of a common trend in wages before the reform. In sum, we find only moderate negative effects on overall employment of about 140,000 (0.4%) jobs, which are mainly driven by a sharp decline of marginal employment (‘mini-jobs’), while we do not find pronounced significant effects for regular employment in most specifications. Our results are robust to a variety of sensitivity tests. KW - Minimum wage KW - Regional bite KW - Employment effects Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.07.002 SN - 0927-5371 SN - 1879-1034 VL - 53 SP - 46 EP - 62 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Fedorets, Alexandra A1 - Preuss, Malte A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Wittbrodt, Linda T1 - The short- and medium-term distributional effects of the German minimum wage reform JF - Empirical economics N2 - This study quantifies the distributional effects of the minimum wage introduced in Germany in 2015. Using detailed Socio-Economic Panel survey data, we assess changes in the hourly wages, working hours, and monthly wages of employees who were entitled to be paid the minimum wage. We employ a difference-in-differences analysis, exploiting regional variation in the “bite” of the minimum wage. At the bottom of the hourly wage distribution, we document wage growth of 9% in the short term and 21% in the medium term. At the same time, we find a reduction in working hours, such that the increase in hourly wages does not lead to a subortionate increase in monthly wages. We conclude that working hours adjustments play an important role in the distributional effects of minimum wages. KW - minimum wage KW - wage distribution KW - hourly wages KW - inequality Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02288-4 SN - 0377-7332 SN - 1435-8921 VL - 64 SP - 1149 EP - 1175 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burauel, Patrick F. A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Grabka, Markus M. A1 - Obst, Cosima A1 - Preuss, Malte A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Shupe, Cortnie T1 - The impact of the German minimum wage on individual wages and monthly warnings JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik = Journal of economics and statistics N2 - This paper evaluates the short-run impact of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the hourly wages and monthly earnings of workers targeted by the reform. We first provide detailed descriptive evidence of changes to the wage structure in particular at the bottom of the distribution and distinguish between trends for regularly employed and marginally employed workers. In the causal analysis, we then employ a differential trend adjusted difference-in-differences (DTADD) strategy to identify the extent to which these changes in wages and earnings can be attributed to the minimum wage introduction. We find that the minimum wage introduction can account for hourly wage growth in the order of roughly 6.5 % or (sic)0.45/hour and an increase in monthly earnings of 6.6 % or (sic)53/month. Despite finding wage growth at the bottom of the distribution, the paper documents widespread non-compliance with the mandated wage floor of (sic)8.50/hour. KW - minimum wage KW - wage and earnings structure KW - inequality Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2018-0077 SN - 0021-4027 SN - 2366-049X VL - 240 IS - 2-3 SP - 201 EP - 231 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Wittbrodt, Linda T1 - The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany BT - An Overview T2 - CEPA Discussion Papers N2 - In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self-employment, as well as reservation wages and satisfaction. We also discuss difficulties in the implementation of the minimum wage and the measurement of its effects related to non-compliance and suitability of data sources. Two years after the minimum wage introduction, the following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects are also identifiable. The effects on aspired goals, such as poverty and inequality reduction, have not materialized in the short run. Instead, a tendency to reduce working hours is found, which alleviates the desired positive impact on monthly income. Additionally, the level of non-compliance was substantial in the short run, thus drawing attention to problems when implementing such a wide-reaching policy. T3 - CEPA Discussion Papers - 1 KW - Minimum Wage KW - Evaluation KW - Earnings KW - Working Hours KW - Employment Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-426929 SN - 2628-653X IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matiaske, Wenzel A1 - Schmidt, Torben Dall A1 - Halbmeier, Christoph A1 - Maas, Martina A1 - Holtmann, Doris A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Böhm, Tamara A1 - Liebig, Stefan A1 - Kritikos, Alexander T1 - SOEP-LEE2 BT - linking surveys on employees to employers in Germany JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik N2 - This article presents the new linked employee-employer study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE2), which offers new research opportunities for various academic fields. In particular, the study contains two waves of an employer survey for persons in dependent work that is also linkable to the SOEP, a large representative German annual household panel (SOEP-LEE2-Core). Moreover, SOEP-LEE2 includes two waves of self-employed surveys based on self-employed in the SOEP-Core (SOEP-LEE2-Self-employed) and three additional representative employer surveys, independent of the SOEP in terms of sampling employers (SOEP-LEE2-Compare). Survey topics include digitalisation and cybersecurity, human capital formation, COVID-19, and human resource management. Here, we describe the content, survey design, and comparability of the different datasets in the SOEP-LEE2 to potential users in different disciplines of research. KW - employment relations KW - human resource management KW - linked employee- employer data KW - SOEP KW - SOEP-LEE2 KW - survey design Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2023-0031 SN - 0021-4027 SN - 2366-049X VL - 243 PB - De Gruyter Oldenbourg CY - Berlin ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Göbler, Konstantin A1 - Grabka, Markus M. A1 - Kolb, Chris A1 - Shupe, Cortnie A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Tübbicke, Stefan A1 - Priem, Maximilian T1 - Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns auf Haushaltseinkommen, Konsum- und Sparverhalten BT - Endbericht Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.mindestlohn-kommission.de/DE/Forschung/Projekte/pdf/Bericht-Mindestlohn-Haushaltseinkommen.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1 SP - 1 EP - 85 PB - Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung CY - Berlin ER -