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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946241
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728424
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2009
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873325
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204043
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444949
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Die Arbeitsmarktanalyse in der wirtschaftspolitischen Beratung des Sachverständigenrates
Franz, Wolfgang - 2013
dem Hintergrund der hohen und persistenten Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland in den jeweiligen Jahresgutachten des SVR einen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193303
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Labour market institutions and structural reforms : a source for business cycle synchronisation?
Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2009
Erweiterungsprozesses der Europaischen Union an Bedeutung gewonnen. In theoretischer Hinsicht gilt eine hohe Sychronisation der … Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen sowie der Steuern auf Arbeit sind wichtige Determinanten für eine grössere Ähnlichkeit der … Zyklen. Gleichartige Reformen hinsichtlich der Koordinierung der Lohnverhandlungen, der Lohnersatzraten sowie der Steuern auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813977
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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world
Fries, Claudia - 2015
I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform causes an additional indirect effect through a terms-of-trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286047
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Institutions and unemployment : do interactions matter?
Sachs, Andreas - 2011
Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between individual labor market institutions have been widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298928