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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600939
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Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany
Isaoglu, Aysen - 2010
mobility is documented. Worker reallocation is found to be strongly procyclical. Its determinants at the individual level are … experience occupational mobility in the subsequent year than workers who do not change. Except for workers with only compulsory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600961
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006
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German Male Income Volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in Permanent and Transitory Income Components and the Role of the Welfare State
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both … higher permanent inequality and higher volatility. However, taking the welfare state and its institutions into account, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600967
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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-transition Germany 1999-2006: Accounting for Sample Selection
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600912
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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being
Grunow, Martina - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334236
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752457
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Low-Wage Jobs - Stepping Stone or Poverty Trap?
Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600979
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The nativity wealth gap in Europe : a matching approach
Ferrari, Irene - 2019
This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161659
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600999