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wage inequality for full-time workers. The approach differentiates by gender and region. The analysis confirms the result … of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage inequality in Germany from the mid-1990s until 2010. The increase can … changes in the composition of the workforce. As an interesting phenomenon, the rise in the inequality indicators did not …
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education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis … compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from … background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this …
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From the end of the Second World War onwards, a middle class emerged in Germany that was, by international standards, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the result of collective agreement on a high coverage...
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Nach der schrittweisen Umstellung der alten Hochschulabschlüsse auf ein Bachelor-/Master-System stellt sich die Frage, wie dies von Studierenden und Unternehmen angenommen und bewertet wird. Die Autoren zeigen für Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, wie sich die Einführung des Bachelors unter...
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In Deutschland wird derzeit intensiv über Fachkräftemangel diskutiert. Höhere Löhne und bessere Arbeitsbedingungen sowie mehr Wettbewerb am Arbeitsmarkt können einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Lösung des Problems Fachkräftemangel leisten. Andere Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der...
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Männer und Frauen verdienen unterschiedlich viel. In Deutschland ist die Lohnlücke zwischen den Geschlechtern besonders hoch. Die Berechnungen der Autoren zeigen: Je nach verwendeten Daten und Methoden verändern sich Umfang und Komponenten der Lohnlücke. Die Identifizierung von...
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adjustments lead to increasing inequality of income during retirement and rising income heterogeneity in private households. Even …
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Recent data from EU-SILC and Destatis seemed to indicate a dramatic increase in German inequality and poverty in the …
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This article describes the development of the needs-weighted net household income of persons in private households in Germany since the year 2000. It also focuses on the presentation of the prevalence and amount of credit debts of private households. The central result is that the share of...
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While the risk of poverty increased quite markedly around the turn of the millennium, a further but flatter increase can be subsequently observed. The development was also accompanied by a stronger increase in the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, particularly in the wake of the positive income...
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