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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325414
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Corneo, Giacomo; Lüthen, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009327816
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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682910
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592864
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235064
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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822210
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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763528
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Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519436
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068823
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relationship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739946