Betriebswirtschaftliche Folgen und Bewertung des Mindestlohns in Hotellerie und Gastronomie

Franziska Drescher () and Christian Buer ()

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2015, vol. 95, issue 5, 359-363

Abstract: On 1 January 2015 a minimum wage of 8.50 euros per working hour was implemented in Germany. The hotel and restaurant industry, as a service-intensive sector, is especially affected. To study the economic impact of the minimum wage, an online survey with 1,512 hoteliers and gastronomers was conducted. The results show that no negative effects on the total number of employees are anticipated, but the participants do expect a changing staff structure. The expected economic impact depends on branch, region and company size. Most entrepreneurs plan to compensate for the extra costs by increasing prices. The participants considered the greatest challenges to be the documentation obligation of the daily working time and the implementation effort–more so than the extra wage costs. In total, the sector holds unfavourable attitudes towards the minimum wage, with hoteliers less negative than gastronomers, and entrepreneurs in the north and west less negative than those in the south and east of Germany. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: E24; J31; M20; M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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