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\title{Employment and Turnover Effects of the German National Minimum Wage: A Sectoral Analysis}
\shortTitle{Employment Effects of the German NMW}
\author{Dirk Czarnitzki and Helena Kreuter and Jesse Wursten\thanks{Czarnitzki: Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany. Kreuter: IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy. Wursten: KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven, Belgium (email: jesse.wursten@kuleuven.be). The authors gratefully acknowledges financial support of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) under grant number 1125818N.}}
\date{\today}
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\JEL{J38, D22}
\Keywords{minimum wage, labour policy, employment elasticity, German national minimum wage, matching estimators, firm level data}

\begin{abstract}
Germany introduced a national minimum wage of €8.50 in 2015. We compare firms in affected sectors to those in unaffected ones using proprietary firm level data. We match on past employment and forward looking creditratings and find only very small negative employment effects (0.014\% of overall employment, ~20 000 jobs lost) and positive effects on turnover in local service sectors. Given Germany's highly developed economy, we believe these results are of interest to the wider, US-centric, minimum wage debate.
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