期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a
legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We
analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal
minimum wage of € 7.5 per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which
accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax-benefit
system and net household incomes. Simulation results show that the minimum wage
would be rather ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial
increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution and had no
negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is
mainly due to the existing system of meanstested income support.
关键词：minimum wage, wage distribution, working poor, poverty reduction,
microsimulation
