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Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?
Bedaso, Fenet Jima; Jirjahn, Uwe; Goerke, Laszlo - 2022
We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...
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Out-of-Partnership Births in East and West Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2019
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that single women in East Germany are significantly more likely to give birth to a child than single women in West Germany. This applies to both planned and unplanned births. Our analysis provides no evidence that the difference...
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
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Decomposing poverty in hard times: Greece 2007-2016
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2020
The Greek economic crisis resulted in a decline in household disposable income by more than 40%. Even though all … population groups lost income in absolute terms, some were substantially more severely hit by the crisis. The paper examines the …
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The Distributional Impact of Recurrent Immovable Property Taxation in Greece
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Kanavitsa, Eleni; Leventi, Chrysa; … - 2020
distribution and poverty indices that are sensitive to the distribution of income among the poor. …
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Inequality and poverty in Greece: Changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the … increases are larger when the indices used are relatively more sensitive to changes close to the bottom of the income … distribution. Unlike claims often made in the public discourse, the elderly improved their relative position in the income …
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