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Earnings Inequality
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature … product of hourly wages and labor supply in terms of hours and weeks worked. In addition to inequality in labor market …
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Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …
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Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany
Cox, Michael; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is …
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15 Years of Pension Reform in Germany: Old Successes and New Threats
Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a …
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Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...
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