Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

dc.contributor.author	Bredemeier, Christian
dc.contributor.author	Jüßen, Falko
dc.date.accessioned	2012-11-13T12:09:37Z
dc.date.available	2012-11-13T12:09:37Z
dc.date.issued	2012-11-13
dc.description.abstract	We study the labor-supply effects of subsidized minimum wages in a structural household model with married and single households. In the model, married women's hours react relatively strongly to minimum wages due to substitution effects within the home production of couples while other population groups show ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly while, in our baseline experiments, married women's average hours increase by 3-6%. Further, we finnd that costs of a subsidized minimum wage are high and increase sharply in its level while its labor-supply effects level out.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/29750
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-4884
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion Paper / SFB 823;52/2012
dc.subject	gender	en
dc.subject	labor supply	en
dc.subject	minimum wage	en
dc.subject	wage subsidies	en
dc.subject.ddc	310
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.ddc	620
dc.title	Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany	en
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	workingPaper	de
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