In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employervs. employee-oriented wage subsidies under a statutory minimum. We extend Laroque and Salanié (2002) by...
Kai-Uwe Müller
Toulouse, Frankreich,
25.08.2014
- 29.08.2014| 68th European Meeting of the Econometric Society ESEM
Kai-Uwe Müller
Lugano, Schweiz,
20.08.2014
- 23.08.2014| Redesigning the Welfare State for Aging Societies: 70th Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF 2014)
Michael Neumann, Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
Lugano, Schweiz,
20.08.2014
- 23.08.2014| Redesigning the Welfare State for Aging Societies: 70th Annual Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF 2014)
Empirical studies on minimum wages are primarily concerned with employment while their effects on income inequality receive less attention. Yet, a popular argument for a federal minimum wage in Germany is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We examine this assertion for different minimum wage levels on the basis of a microsimulation model that accounts for the...
Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
Düsseldorf,
04.09.2013
- 07.09.2013| Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013
On the basis of a structural labor demand model employment effects of a minimum wage are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution. The main contribution of the paper is to relax restrictive functional form assumptions of earlier papers by adopting semi-parametric censored quantile regressions to this framework. We apply the model to the sectoral minimum wage in the German...
Kai-Uwe Müller
Göteborg, Schweden,
26.08.2013
- 30.08.2013| 67th European Meeting of the Econometric Society ESEM
Kai-Uwe Müller
Berlin,
17.07.2013
| Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen: Labor Supply Estimation with Endogenous Rationing. An Application to the Federal Minimum Wage in Germany
On the basis of a structural labor demand model employment effects of a minimum wage are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution. The main contribution of the paper is to relax restrictive functional form assumptions of earlier papers by introducing more flexible semi-parametric censored quantile regressions to this framework. We apply the model to the sectoral minimum wage in...
Kai-Uwe Müller
Göttingen,
09.09.2012
- 12.09.2012| Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts: Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We suggest semi-parametric censored quantile regression models to relax these assumptions and find that...
Viktor Steiner, Kai-Uwe Müller
Paris, Frankreich,
09.02.2009
- 10.02.2009| Microsimulation as a Tool for the Analysis of Public Policies: Workshop; Paris School of Economics