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Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021

transitions between labor status or jobs, whereas for those at the top, earnings changes are mainly induced by wage rate growth …

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Cyclical Income Risk in Great Britain

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2019

This paper establishes new evidence on the cyclical behaviour of household income risk in Great Britain and assesses the role of social insurance policy in mitigating against this risk. We address these issues using the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) by decomposing stochastic...

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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013

This paper analyzes the effects of short-time work (i.e., government subsidized working time reductions) on unemployment and output fluctuations. The central question is whether the rule based component (i.e., the existence of the institution short-time work) and the discretionary component...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect … of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using linked employer-employee data for western … Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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Qualifikationsanforderungen und Arbeitsformen in der Neuen Ökonomie

Christensen, Björn - 2001

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Auswirkungen der Neuen Ökonomie auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Neue Berufsfelder weisen nach dieser Untersuchung eine große und zunehmende Bedeutung auf. Gekennzeichnet ist diese Entwicklung durch verstärkte Humankapital- und Flexibilitätsanforderungen...

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...

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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …

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They are even larger! : More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

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A tale of two countries: a comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment in either country, and there is mild evidence that...

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Short-Time Work and Precautionary Savings

Gehrke, Britta; Dengler, Thomas - 2022

In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries have used short-time work (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk...

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