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Earnings Dynamics in Germany
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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Betriebswirtschaftliche Folgen und Bewertung des Mindestlohns in Hotellerie und Gastronomie
Drescher, Franziska; Buer, Christian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 5, pp. 359-363
On 1 January 2015 a minimum wage of 8.50 euros per working hour was implemented in Germany. The hotel and restaurant … industry, as a service-intensive sector, is especially affected. To study the economic impact of the minimum wage, an online … effort – more so than the extra wage costs. In total, the sector holds unfavourable attitudes towards the minimum wage, with …
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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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Arbeitsmarkt weiterhin robust gegen Krisen?
Weber, Enzo - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 8, pp. 553-555
Während Europa sich von einer Beinahe-Krise zur nächsten hangelt, hält sich die deutsche Konjunktur relativ gut. Angewiesen ist sie dabei auf den starken Inlandskonsum als wesentliche Stütze. Und der basiert wiederum auf der guten Beschäftigungsentwicklung. Wenn es aber wieder einmal zu...
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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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Zeitarbeitsbranche : rückläufige Beschäftigung
Hutter, Christian; Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 6, pp. 401-403
Die Zahl der Beschäftigten in der Zeitarbeitsbranche stieg in Deutschland lange Zeit an. Seit Ende 2017 hat sich dies verändert, die Zahl der Beschäftigten in der Zeitarbeit sinkt. Dies hängt mit der Neufassung des Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetzes zusammen, aber auch mit der schwachen...
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Wage Risk and the Skill Premium
Slavík, Ctirad - 2020
, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill … premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk increases precautionary savings, thereby boosting capital accumulation … that the rise in wage risk observed between 1967 and 2010 increases the skill premium significantly. This finding is robust …
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Flache Erfahrungskurvenprofile von ausländischen Beschäftigten in Deutschland
Brunow, Stephan; Jost, Oskar - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 101 (2021) 11, pp. 889-893
This paper sheds light on the wage structure of foreign and German employees who are subject to social security …
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