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-time. This strong increase in female participation in the workforce is largely due to sectoral changes. Employment in Germany has …
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-time. This strong increase in female participation in the workforce is largely due to sectoral changes. Employment in Germany has …
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For many years, only better-paid workers benefited from Germany's real wage increases. In contrast, dependent employees with lower hourly wages suffered substantial losses, while the low-wage sector expanded. Around 2010, these trends came to an end. Now all wage groups benefit from wage...
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Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly...
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This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since … the mid-1990s, inequality in disposable household income in Germany has generally increased. This trend was in effect … the income distribution increased. At the same time, there were many changes in the labor market. Employment rose, working …
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For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn,...
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For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783919
Entrepreneurial self-employment in Germany has undergone a strong upturn in the last 20 years. The number of self … among foreigners to enter self-employment. Furthermore, the percentage of women becoming involved in start-ups increased … substantially during the monitoring period. The decision to take up self-employment generally pays off: after three years, 38 …
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be unfounded. Although there has been a slight increase in the average age of engineers in employment over the last … much lower. On average, engineers are in fact slightly younger than other academics in employment, and the percentage of …
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Entrepreneurial self-employment in Germany has undergone a strong upturn in the last 20 years. The number of self … among foreigners to enter self-employment. Furthermore, the percentage of women becoming involved in start-ups increased … substantially during the monitoring period. The decision to take up self-employment generally pays off: after three years, 38 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653966