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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11
Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016
We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific...
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Do fixed-term contracts increase the long-term employment opportunities of the unemployed?
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …
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Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II
Aldashev, Alisher; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2009
Diese Arbeit untersucht die erwerbsfÄahig eingestuften Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II, die mindestens einmal Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 bezogen haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass 16% der Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II im dritten Quartal 2006 während des Zeitraums 2000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888025
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875240
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Shifting taxes from labor to consumption : more employment and more inequality
Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015
This paper investigates the effect of shifting taxes from labor income to consumption on labor supply and the distribution of income in Germany. We simulate stepwise increases in the value-added tax (VAT) rate, which are compensated by revenue-neutral reductions in income-related taxes. We...
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Do temporary workers receive risk-premiums? : assessing the wage effects of fixed-term contracts in West-Germany by matching estimators compared with parametric approaches
Hagen, Tobias - 2001
The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447109
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Quantilsregressionen der westdeutschen Verdienste : ein Vergleich zwischen der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung und der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Reize, Frank - 2002 - Langversion
Diese Arbeit vergleicht die Verdienststrukturen in Westdeutschland für die Jahre 1990 und 1995 basierend auf der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung und der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe. Wir betrachten Verdienstunterschiede im Hinblick auf die berufliche Qualifikation, das Geschlecht, den...
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446629