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In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …
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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported...
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miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …
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secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
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-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
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Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …
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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...
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