We show that the minimum wage introduced in Germany in 2015 led to spatial wage convergence, in particular in the left tail of the distribution, without reducing relative employment in low-wage regions within the first two years.

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1 November 2018

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Economics Letters 172, pp.127-130, 2018

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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.08.032

This Journal article is published under the centre's Urban programme.