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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time : a novel method applied to the Covid-19 crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383744
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time: a novel method applied to the COVID-19 crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383825
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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - 2013
By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: 'only' 9.6 percent of the 'active' youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, is one of the very few European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331442
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Youth unemployment in Korea : from a German and transitional labour market point of view
Schmid, Günther - 2013
By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU - 27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, is one of the very few European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755585
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Language skills and employment rate of refugees in Germany improving with time
Brücker, Herbert; Croisier, Johannes; Kosyakova, Yuliya; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 4/6, pp. 49-61
Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. Compared to the previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976551
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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany
Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018
In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901978
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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239166
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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017
This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598502
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The role of information for public preferences on education - evidence from representative survey experiments
Werner, Katharina - 2019
from disadvantaged backgrounds. As it turns out, the majority of the German public perceives inequality in educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966937
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Better together? : heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement
Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018
. My results show that decreasing the degree of tracking in early secondary school can reduce inequality while increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938776