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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018699
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average … by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2004 average wages rose by … about 8 percent in West Germany and 28 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality for prime age dependent males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018694
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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018725
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868116
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399077
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
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Development of Wage Inequality for Natives and Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from Quantile Regression and Decomposition
Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017394
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Assimilation and Cohort Effects for German Immigrants
Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of … origin. The rising wage inequality in Germany since the mid nineties will also be considered. We find a negative wage gap and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069134
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Intra-household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
García, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; Montuenga, … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels für Deutschland (SOEP), inwieweit … selbständige Ausländer in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hohe Einkommen erzielen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass ausländische … against individual and household characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017367
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Housing, Energy Cost, and the Poor: Counteracting Effects in Germany's Housing Allowance Program
Grösche, Peter - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
. Germany provides an allowance to low-income households, covering the housing as well as the space heating cost, to protect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017462