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Betriebswirtschaftliche Folgen und Bewertung des Mindestlohns in Hotellerie und Gastronomie

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  • Franziska Drescher
  • Christian Buer

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On 1 January 2015 a minimum wage of 8.50 euros per working hour was implemented in Germany. The hotel and restaurant industry, as a service-intensive sector, is especially affected. To study the economic impact of the minimum wage, an online survey with 1,512 hoteliers and gastronomers was conducted. The results show that no negative effects on the total number of employees are anticipated, but the participants do expect a changing staff structure. The expected economic impact depends on branch, region and company size. Most entrepreneurs plan to compensate for the extra costs by increasing prices. The participants considered the greatest challenges to be the documentation obligation of the daily working time and the implementation effort–more so than the extra wage costs. In total, the sector holds unfavourable attitudes towards the minimum wage, with hoteliers less negative than gastronomers, and entrepreneurs in the north and west less negative than those in the south and east of Germany. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Franziska Drescher & Christian Buer, 2015. "Betriebswirtschaftliche Folgen und Bewertung des Mindestlohns in Hotellerie und Gastronomie," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 95(5), pages 359-363, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:95:y:2015:i:5:p:359-363
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-015-1832-9
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    1. Lesch, Hagen & Schröder, Christoph, 2016. "Ein Jahr gesetzlicher Mindestlohn: Ein Faktencheck," IW-Trends – Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) / German Economic Institute, vol. 43(2), pages 57-73.

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    Keywords

    E24; J31; M20; M50;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • M20 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - General
    • M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General

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