The regional effects of Germany’s national minimum wage

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: difference-in differences; employment; Germany; minimum wage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J58 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-09-08
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Published in Economics Letters, 8, September, 2018, 172, pp. 127-130. ISSN: 0165-1765

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