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Minimum wage non-compliance: The role of co-determination
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438371
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322841
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Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896228
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and the criminal activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2013
that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327285
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The effect of local crime on well-being: Evidence for Germany
Krekel, Christian; Poprawe, Marie L. - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of local crime on well-being in Germany, using data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set constructed from official police crime statistics, covering both counties and urban … districts for the time period between 1994 and 2012. We find that local area crime has a significantly negative impact on life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397737
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the "Children of the Wall"
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818236
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Individual poverty paths and the stability of control-perception
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2015
This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underly many idiosyncratic determinants of...
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Explaining rising Income inequality in Germany, 1991-2010
Schmid, Kai Daniel; Stein, Ulrike - 2013
In Germany, inequality of net equivalized income increased noticeably in the first half of the new millennium. We aim … to identify the main drivers of this rise in income inequality since the early 1990s. We provide a broad overview of the … circumstances under which inequality evolved, i.e. which changes in the German economy are most likely to provide an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322845
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Spitzeneinkommen zwischen ökonomischem und normativem Marktversagen: Marktorientierte und soziale Legitimation von Topmanager-Gehältern
Krämer, Hagen - 2013
Die Ungleichheit der Einkommensverteilung hat nicht zuletzt deshalb stark zugenommen, weil die Bezieher von Spitzeneinkommen überproportional hohe Einkommenszuwächse erzielten. Vor allem der mittlerweile immense Abstand der Gehälter von Topmanagern zu den von Normalverdienern wird in...
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In Vino Pecunia? The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2008
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle". Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600739