Employment Effects of Raising the German Minimum Wage

Dr. Baumann leads the office of the Mindestlohnkommission. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute and he previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, as an advisor for labour market policy in the German Bundestag and as a labour market specialist for the European Training Foundation in Turin, an agency of the European Union. He will talk about raising the minimum wage in Germany in January 2022 and what this will imply for the labour market. We will also look back at the introduction of the minimum wage in Germany in 2015.