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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?
McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.
-tier labour market for temporary employment in Germany. -- mobility ; unemployment ; Fixed-term contracts ; dynamic wages … temporary employees in Germany using socio-economic panel data from the late 1990s. Compared to simple OLS estimates, using a … same employer. For some temporary employment leads to unemployment, particularly those with low human capital. Positioning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627289
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Closing in on Closure. Occupational Closure and Temporary Employment in Germany
Stuth, Stefan - 2017
There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051225
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Delegation in long-term relationships
Schütte, Miriam; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2012
This paper considers the e effcts of a two-period interaction on the decision of a principal to delegate authority to a potentially biased but better informed agent. Compared to the (repeated) one-period case, the agent's first period actions may also signal his type which in turn impacts wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615156
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Employed and unemployed search : the marginal willingness to pay for attributes in Lithuania, the US and the Netherlands
Ommeren, Jos van; Hazans, Mihails - 2003
This paper introduces a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay to avoid a temporary contract, which increases the risk of becoming unemployed, is derived for Lithuania. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518117
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Do temporary help agencies help? : temporary employment transitions for low-skilled workers
Carrasco, Raquel; Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael; Jerez, Belén - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259820
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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany
Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - 2009
2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. -- Variance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885106
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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany
Myck, Michał (contributor); Ochmann, Richard (contributor);  … - 2008
government intervention. We examine these claims using a fully balanced panel of full-time employed individuals in Germany from … expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. -- Variance decomposition ; covariance structure models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762125
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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany
Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard R.; Qari, Salmai - 2008
government intervention. We examine these claims using a fully balanced panel of full-time employed individuals in Germany from … expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011633508
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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages : evidence from Germany
Braakmann, Nils - 2009 - This version: January 15, 2009
This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big five", positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634379
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The Role of Psychological Traits for the Gender Gap in Full-Time Employment and Wages : Evidence from Germany
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big five", positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046773