Labor market policy

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Press release February 6, 2019

Still good labor market development leads to further decline in shadow economy in 2019 (in German).

In 2019, the size of the shadow economy in Germany will decrease by around EUR 5 billion. The ratio of the shadow economy to official GDP will thus fall to just over 9 percent. The main reason for this is the continuing good labor market situation, which so far has not been affected by the weaker growth outlook. In addition, lower taxes for the small self-employed make it more worthwhile to register a business.



Press release June 27, 2018

Companies use many levers to absorb cost increases resulting from the minimum wage (in German).

A general statutory minimum wage was introduced in Germany at the beginning of 2015. On behalf of the Minimum Wage Commission, the IAW has now conducted a comprehensive qualitative study in industries that were heavily affected by the minimum wage to investigate the reactions of companies and employees to the minimum wage. The study showed that companies use a wide range of adaptation strategies to respond to the changes resulting from the introduction of the minimum wage.


Publications

Tobias Brändle, René Kalweit, Andreas Koch, Tobias König, Marcel Reiner, Jochen Späth, u.a. Endbericht zum Forschungsvorhaben, BMAS-Forschungsbericht 614, ISSN 0179-4992, Dezember 2022


Bernhard Boockmann, René Kalweit, Anastasia Maier, Tobias Scheu, u.a. Abschlussbericht im Auftrag der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Oktober 2022, Tübingen/Bielefeld.


Martin Brussig, Andrea Kirchmann, Johannes Kirsch, Günther Klee, Michel Kusche, Anastasia Maier, Tobias Scheu, Katharina Schilling Reihe Migration & Integration, Band 11, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748931829


Tobias König, Thomas Brenner IAW Discussionpaper No. 140, September 2022


Anne Zühlke, Maren Baumgärtner Eine empirische Analyse auf der Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels Baden-Württemberg, IAW-Kurzbericht 1/2022