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Has atypical work become typical in Germany? Country case studies on labour market segmentation
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2013
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus 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...
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Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland
Tobsch, Verena; Holst, Elke - 2019
Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings...
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages: A panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
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Arbeitszeitwünsche, Arbeitslosigkeit und Arbeitszeitpolitik
Grözinger, Gerd; Matiaske, Wenzel; Tobsch, Verena - 2008
Der Beitrag untersucht auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels 2004 die Arbeitszeitwünsche der abhängig Beschäftigten in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung von damit einhergehenden Einkommensveränderungen. Es wird gezeigt, dass die in der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Diskussion häufig...
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601035
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The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades
Lipps, Oliver; Oesch, Daniel - 2017
The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … gap did not follow a clear time trend, but remained basically constant. In Germany, differences in unemployment risks and …
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