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Vor der Bundestagswahl: Argumente für Mindestlöhne überzeugen nicht

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  • Dominik Groll
  • Stefan Kooths

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For the first time ever, all political parties represented in the German Bundestag are proposing some form of minimum wage regulation in their federal campaigns. After sketching an overview of the vast empirical literature on the employment effects of minimum wages, which has yet to come to a consensus, the paper concentrates on the most common theoretical arguments for the view that minimum wages need not reduce the employment levels of affected workers. The authors find that those arguments are either conceptually inconsistent or assume market characteristics that can hardly describe the reality of low-wage labour markets. In the end, minimum wages are a blunt instrument to reduce poverty among workers — its primary objective — because it benefits many that are not poor and does not address the most important determinant of poverty in Germany, namely unemployment. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

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  • Dominik Groll & Stefan Kooths, 2013. "Vor der Bundestagswahl: Argumente für Mindestlöhne überzeugen nicht," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 93(8), pages 545-551, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:93:y:2013:i:8:p:545-551
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-013-1563-8
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    1. Gern, Klaus-Jürgen & Jannsen, Nils & Plödt, Martin & van Roye, Björn & Scheide, Joachim & Schwarzmüller, Tim & Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Groll, Dominik & Kooths, Stefan, 2014. "Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Sommer 2014," Kiel Discussion Papers 539/540, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    2. Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Groll, Dominik & Jannsen, Nils & Kooths, Stefan & Scheide, Joachim, 2014. "Deutsche Konjunktur im Herbst 2014," Kiel Discussion Papers 545/546, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    3. Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Groll, Dominik & Jannsen, Nils & Kooths, Stefan & Pirschel, Inske & Plödt, Martin & Wolters, Maik H., 2015. "Deutsche Konjunktur im Frühjahr 2015 - Deutschland auf dem Weg in die Hochkonjunktur [German Economy Spring 2015 - German economy on the road to overheating]," Kieler Konjunkturberichte 5, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    4. Boss, Alfred, 2013. "Verhindert ein Mindestlohn eine Ausbeutung des Staates?," Kiel Working Papers 1884, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    5. Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens & Gern, Klaus-Jürgen & Plödt, Martin & van Roye, Björn & Scheide, Joachim & Schwarzmüller, Tim & Groll, Dominik & Kooths, Stefan, 2013. "Weltkonjunktur und deutsche Konjunktur im Winter 2013," Kiel Discussion Papers 530/531, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    6. Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens, 2013. "Zu den möglichen Auswirkungen eines Mindestlohns auf die Einnahmen der öffentlichen Haushalte," Kiel Insight 2013.15, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    7. Jannsen, Nils, 2013. "Ist die Arbeitslosenquote ein guter Anker für die "forward guidance" der Federal Reserve?," Kiel Insight 2013.13, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).

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    Keywords

    J23; J31; J38;
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    JEL classification:

    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy

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