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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416948
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678691
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Kurzarbeit: Sinnvoller Konjunkturpuffer oder verlängertes Arbeitslosengeld?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Rezession hat die Politik in Deutschland die Leistungen der Kurzarbeit ausgeweitet, indem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615425
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Five Issues in the Design of Income Support Mechanisms: The Case of Italy
Colombino, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Differently from most European countries and despite the recommendations on the part of the European Commission, Italy still misses a sufficiently systematic and nationwide mechanism of income support. In this paper we want to explore the feasibility, the desirability and the features of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359862
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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822272
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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
Connolly, Helen; Gottschalk, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job duration and wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies causal links between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822619
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Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada
Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070424
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Transition with Heterogeneous Labor
Balla, Katalin; Köllo, János; Simonovits, András - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We extend the benchmark model of Aghion and Blanchard (1994), assuming two segments of the emerging private sector that differ in workers’ productivity. We look at the paths of employment, wages, taxes, labor costs and profits during and after the transition, up until the shock is fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703054
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The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283583
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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace …-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain … the differences between East and West Germany as well as the corresponding changes in NUD over time. Blinder …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703126