Potential effects of a statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap: A simulation-based study for Germany
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- Christina Boll & Hendrik Hüning & Julian Leppin & Johannes Puckelwald, 2015. "Potential Effects of Statutory Minimum Wage on the Gender Pay Gap: A Simulation-Based Study for Germany," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 766, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
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Keywords
minimum wage; labor demand; wage elasticity; gender pay gap; monopsony;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2015-06-27 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2015-06-27 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HME-2015-06-27 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2015-06-27 (Labour Economics)
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