Begrenzte Reichweite: Die meisten Aufstocker bleiben trotz Mindestlohn bedürftig (Most working poor remain dependent on welfare benefits despite the minimum wage)

Kerstin Bruckmeier and Jürgen Wiemers
Additional contact information
Kerstin Bruckmeier: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany
Jürgen Wiemers: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 201407, IAB-Kurzbericht from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "We analyse the effects of the introduction of a general minimum wage of 8.50 Euro in Germany on the number of working welfare recipients, fiscal outcomes, income distribution and labour supply using microsimulation. Our results show that only a small number of working welfare recipients would exit social assistance even under the assumption that there are no negative effects on employment. Given constant employment in the short run, welfare expenditure decrease by 500 million to 650 million Euro per year. Income gains for working welfare recipients are small due to high marginal rates of benefit reduction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Auswirkungen; Aufstocker; Einkommensentwicklung; Mindestlohn; öffentliche Ausgaben; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Arbeitslosengeld II (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doku.iab.de/kurzber/2014/kb0714.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iab:iabkbe:201407

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IAB-Kurzbericht from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany] Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by IAB, Geschäftsbereich Wissenschaftliche Fachinformation und Bibliothek ().