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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Buurman, Margaretha; Dur, Robert - 2021
Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the implications of its personnel policy on the self-selection and allocation decisions of agents who differ...
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Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns : Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P. - 2014
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047848
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Automation and the Changing Nature of Work
Josten, Cecily; Lordan, Grace - 2022
This study identifies the job attributes, and in particular skills and abilities, which predict the likelihood a job is recently automatable drawing on the Josten and Lordan (2020) classification of automatability, EU labour force survey data and a machine learning regression approach. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083770
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The Unequal Incidence of Non-Standard Employment Across Occupational Groups : An Empirical Analysis of Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Germany and Europe
Marx, Paul - 2011
The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129099
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Non-Standard Employment Across Occupations in Germany : The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073869
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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075791
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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764076
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'Marginal Employment' : Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316695
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour : Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2021
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …' social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317227
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Evaluating the German Mini-Job Reform Using a True Natural Experiment
Caliendo, Marco; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany - introduced on April 1, 2003 - can be seen in line with these policies, exempting labour …
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