Britta Gehrke

@gehrkeb.bsky.social

Professor of Economics at FU Berlin, macro, labor, finance, policy

As the semester starts we are happy to announce that the Research Seminar in Economics is also back. Every Thursday a different guest speaker will present their research on various topics. You are welcome to join us in the Boltzmannstraße 20, see you there👋

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Our paper on minimum wages and financial constraints in firms is now published in the EER. We document trade-offs between less adverse employment effects and lower wage inequality after minimum wage increases. @gehrkeb.bsky.social Free access here:

Minimum wages, wage dispersion and financial constraints in firms

This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm ba…

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