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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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income in East Germany. The difference in biases in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …
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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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Although the cyclical aspects of worker reallocation are investigated in numerous studies, only scarce empirical evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for different subgroups of workers, defined by age, gender and...
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Economic conditions at the time of labour market entry can induce wage differentials between workers entering the … labour market at different points in time. While the existence and persistence of these entry wage differentials are well … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The …
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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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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
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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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faced a positive probability of being drafted. We find that the putative earnings advantage and wage premium of those who …
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This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard deviation of wages. Following the procedure...
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