Da gute Bildung die Chance auf wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eröffnet, ist Chancengleichheit im Bildungssystem ein zentraler Ansatzpunkt, um soziale Ungleichheiten zu verringern. Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2019, unsere jährliche repräsentative Meinungsumfrage von über...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Arbeitsbedingungen unterschiedlicher Berufsgruppen. Grundlage des Berichtes sind die Daten des European Survey on Working Conditions aus den Jahren 2000 und 2005. Es zeigen sich einige bemerkenswerte Unterschiede zwischen den Berufsgruppen....

As a new approach we study individual wage compensations due to income risksmeasured by the variance and skewness of the wage distributions in different occupational groups. Using German administrative panel data and estimating a fixed effects model we confirm the expected positive effect of the...

Population aging translates into aging of the labor force. However, the impact of the former on the latter is neither straightforward nor uniform over specific groups. The reason is that economic decisions concerning, for example, duration of schooling or labor-market participation of women and...

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about...

This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share of the Creative Class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places and rural regions may also have a considerable proportion of...

This study investigates institutional and economic reasons for downward wage rigidity regarding three occupational skill groups. Based on a survey of 801 firms in Germany and an econometric analysis, we find strong support for explanations based on the effects of labour union contracts and...