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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
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The impact of minimum wages on well-being : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Gülal, Filiz; Ayaita, Adam - 2018
To analyze well-being effects of minimum wages, the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany in 2015 is used as a … (East Germany). The results hold if those who are not employed anymore after the reform are included in the analysis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844512
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Explaining rising Income inequality in Germany, 1991 - 2010
Schmid, Kai D.; Stein, Ulrike - 2013
In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim …
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632489
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Policy, institutional factors and earnings mobility
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635027
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Earnings dynamics and inequality in EU, 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
This paper uses ECHP for 14 EU countries to explore the dynamic structure of individual earnings and the extent to which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635028
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Increased opportunity to move up the economic ladder? : earnings mobility in EU ; 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
countries. The lowest long-term mobility is found in Luxembourg followed by four clusters: first, Spain, France and Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635901
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Equalizing or disequalizing lifetime earnings differentials? : earnings mobility in the EU ; 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and … Denmark, followed by France and Belgium with similar values, then UK, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636712
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Interrelationships among locus of control and years in management and unemployment : differences by gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824281
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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm
Chadi, Adrian - 2011
In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826714