The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in Germany

Gülal, Filiz; Ayaita, Adam

doi:10.1007/s10902-019-00189-5

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“…Some authors, such as Stewart (2004) or Reeves et al (2017), use a very low upper hourly wage threshold of 110% of the minimum wage. Others use higher thresholds: Kronenberg et al (2017) use 140%, Pusch and Rehm (2017) and Gülal and Ayaita (2018) use approximately 150%, and Lenhart (2017a) use approximately 170%, whereas Bossler and Broszeit (2017) use no upper threshold at all. The main purpose of a narrowly defined hourly wage band for the control group is to ensure the comparability of the treated and control groups, as comparability seems plausible for individuals whose hourly wages are very close.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The reduction in the number of individuals is hence mainly due to the nature of our unbalanced panel, as past self-rated health enters our regression as an extra individual variable. 15 Studies with a similar identification strategy restrict the sample to individuals who are employed in both 2014 and 2015 [see Gülal and Ayaita (2018)] or even in the same job (Pusch and Rehm 2017) to disentangle the effects of the reform from the effects of gaining employment or changing jobs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Following Lenhart (2017a) and Gülal and Ayaita (2018), we perform placebo tests. Accordingly, we pretend that the reform took place in 2014, which is one year prior to the actual minimum wage reform.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2 For studies that evaluate the labor market-related effects of the German minimum wage reform, see, for example, Bossler and Gerner (2019), Bonin et al (2018), and . Only a few authors have analyzed nonmarket outcomes such as job or life satisfaction (Bossler and Broszeit 2017;Pusch and Rehm 2017;Gülal and Ayaita 2018). 3 See Antoni et al (2017) for details.…”

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Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? Evidence from a natural experiment

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We analyze whether the introduction of the general minimum wage in Germany in 2015 had an effect on workers’ self-rated health. To this end, we use survey data linked to administrative employment records and apply difference-in-differences regressions combined with propensity score matching. This approach enables us to control for a vast set of potential confounding variables. We find a health improving effect among the individuals who were most likely to be affected by the reform. Our results indicate that workers’ improved satisfaction with pay, their reduced working hours, and a reduction in time pressure at work may drive this result.

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“…In addition, a few of them analyze the impact of policies from a quantitative perspective by establishing models. Wang et al used system dynamics to build a mechanism model of the impact of STI policies on regional innovation capability and studied the impact mechanism of different policies on regional innovation capability [ 9 ]; Avdiushchenko and Zając proposed a set of possible indicators to evaluate the progress of EU countries in realizing circular economy at the regional level [ 10 ]; O'Brien and Burrows used vertical and mixed methods to analyze the effectiveness of regional policies for large-scale layoffs [ 11 ]; Gülal and Ayaita took the introduction of minimum wage in Germany as the standard experiment and used the double difference model to analyze the impact of minimum wage on well-being [ 12 ]. Research on the effect of single policy: most of the existing research on the effect of STI policy is to study the effect of a single STI policy.…”

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Analysis on the Differences of Combination Effects of Science and Technology Innovation Policies

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Wei

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Science and technology innovation (STI) policy is a strategic principle to guide the whole cause of STI. The study on STI policy and its effect is particularly important. Most of the existing studies on the effect of STI policy focus on the effect of a single policy, and the studies on the effect of policy combination and its differences need to be further enriched and improved. This study proposes a method combining system simulation experiment and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to study the differences of combination effects of STI policies. The results show that there are significant effect differences in the combination of STI policies as a whole, but when it comes to different combinations of STI policies, not all policy combinations have significant differences. This study not only points out whether there are significant differences in a certain effect among which combinations of STI policies but also points out whether there are significant differences in all effects among which combinations of STI policies at the same time. This study has theoretical and practical significance for realizing scientific policy-making and sustainable development.

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The introduction of a minimum wage in Germany and the effects on physical activity participation

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2024

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The relationship between income and physical activity has been extensively studied. This paper utilizes the introduction of the minimum wage in Germany in 2015 as a quasi-experiment to determine the causal effect of minimum wages on the frequency of physical activity participation. Employing survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel between 2013 and 2017, regression-adjusted difference-in-difference models combined with matching techniques are estimated. Our findings reveal a notable negative effect immediately after the minimum wage implementation on physical activity frequency. Given that the introduction of the minimum wage did not increase monthly gross income but reduced working hours, it appears that affected individuals exhibit preferences and engage in utility maximization that do not emphasize healthy behaviors. This effect is particularly pronounced among older females in white-collar occupations.

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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Well-Being: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment in Germany

Cited by 15 publications

References 97 publications

Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? Evidence from a natural experiment

Do minimum wages improve self-rated health? Evidence from a natural experiment

Analysis on the Differences of Combination Effects of Science and Technology Innovation Policies

The introduction of a minimum wage in Germany and the effects on physical activity participation

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