The Monitoring and Enforcement of Minimum Wages (PDF)

The book presents the results of the first comprehensive empirical study on the control of minimum wages in Germany. It offers an overview of the challenges and problems of enforcement and compliance with minimum wages, taking three sectors as examples (construction, meat industry, hospitality). On the basis of numerous interviews with experts from the field (e.g. trade unions, employers' associations, customs) and a comprehensive evaluation of the broad international research literature, it identifies starting points and strategies for sustainably improving compliance with and enforcement of minimum wages.

The content

- Effects of the statutory minimum wage

- Interaction between minimum and collectively agreed wages

- International findings on the enforcement of labour standards

- Control of minimum wages in Germany

- The main construction trade

- meat industry

- hotel and restaurant industry

- Strategic starting points for more effective controls

The target groups

Politicians, trade unions and employers' associations as well as experts and students from the social, economic, social and legal sciences

The authors

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Bosch is Senior Professor at the Institute for Work and Qualification (IAQ) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Frederic Hüttenhoff is a research associate at IAQ.

Dr. Claudia Weinkopf is Deputy Executive Director of the IAQ.