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Performance pay across Europe: Drivers of the increase and the link with wage inequality

Zwysen, Wouter - 2021

This paper shows that the use of performance pay schemes has risen substantially across Europe from fewer than one-fifth in 2000 up to one-third in 2015, using data from the European Working Conditions Survey and the Structure of Earnings Survey enriched with external contextual data. This...

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Wage inequality in Europe: The institutional and economic factors supporting workers

Zwysen, Wouter - 2024

Much of the literature on wage inequality describes increases in wage inequality over time driven by seemingly unstoppable forces of technological change and globalisation, widening the gaps between workers and disadvantaging the lower paid. At the same time institutional protection has...

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Ostdeutsche, westdeutsche und ost-west-mobile Mütter im Vergleich

Grunow, Daniela; Müller, Dana - 2012

regions differ markedly with regard to cultural orientations towards working mothers. Our comparison therefore allows drawing …, während sich kulturelle Orientierungen hinsichtlich der Mutterrolle unterscheiden. Unser Vergleich erlaubt deshalb … mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the …

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The employment of mothers: Recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …

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The Gini Trade Index: What can we learn from a new trade indicator?

Cernat, Lucian - 2024

This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...

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