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Nickel and dimed German style : the working poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...

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Labour market polarisation, job tasks and monopsony power

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2020

Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...

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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009

This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...

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Aging and real estate prices in Germany

Breidenbach, Philipp; Jäger, Philipp; Taruttis, Lisa - 2022

robust empirical evidence that population aging depresses real estate prices and rents. Using millions of individual real … have been up to 12% higher, if the population age distribution had been the same as in 2008. We show that population aging … demand for living space and live-cycle dissaving are driving our results. We predict that population aging will continue to …

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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply

Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

Das Arbeitsangebot wird grundsätzlich durch zwei Faktoren bestimmt: Die Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt (extensives … Arbeitsangebot) und die Anzahl der gearbeiteten Stunden der Beschäftigten (intensives Arbeitsangebot). Auf Basis der … gesamte Arbeitsangebot ist. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf signifikante Unterschiede im Arbeitsangebot zwischen den Ländern hin …

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Inflation forecasting with inflation sentiment indicators

Döhrn, Roland (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...

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Tobacco and alcohol: complements or substitutes? : a structural model approach

Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Tilman; … - 2007

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The dynamics of assortative mating in Germany

Grave, Barbara S.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012

This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic...

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High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions

Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2013

We estimate the effects on wage and employment growth rates of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in the main construction industry of Germany. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and...

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