Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Wage on Positional Persistence Across the Wage Distribution

Naguib, Costanza

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3365272

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Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Wage on Positional Persistence Across the Wage Distribution

11 Pages Posted: 3 May 2019 Last revised: 29 Apr 2020

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Costanza Naguib

University of St. Gallen; University of Lugano; University of Bern - Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Date Written: April 3, 2019

Abstract

In 2015, a national minimum wage was introduced in Germany. We estimate treatment effect on individual positional persistence in different parts of the wage distribution. We find that the policy change caused an increase in wage mobility at the bottom of the wage distribution and a decrease in the same variable at the top of it.

Keywords: Minimum wage, positional persistence, treatment evaluation, Germany

JEL Classification: C23, J38

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Naguib, Costanza, Assessing the Impact of a Minimum Wage on Positional Persistence Across the Wage Distribution (April 3, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3365272 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3365272