All articles about: minimum wage 

15. December 2023 | International and Regional Labour Markets

Recent Developments in the Distribution of Labour Income and Skills

Lutz Bellmann

Contributing to a better understanding of wage determination and wage distribution as well as job skills – that was the aim of the international conference “Recent Developments in Wage ...read more

5. June 2023 | International Labour Markets

Alan Manning: “It is important to have institutions such as the minimum wage to adress the market power of employers”

Jutta Winters

Professor Alan Manning, one of the world’s most renowned labour market economists, explains in this video-statement the basic idea of imperfect competition in the labour market. He elaborates ...read more

25. November 2021 | International Labour Markets

Recent research on minimum wages – evidence from a virtual seminar series

Mario Bossler , Duncan Roth , Matthias Umkehrer

A recent seminar series focussed on the cutting-edge international research on minimum wage policies with regard to employment, consumer prices, wage inequality, and other outcomes. ...read more

20. July 2017 | Interviews

The German minimum wage: an interview with IAB Director Joachim Möller

After many years of debates, 2015 saw the introduction of a statutory minimum wage of € 8.50 per hour (€ 8.84 since 2017) in Germany. While opponents of the minimum wage predicted negative ...read more