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Minimum wage : many entitled employees in Germany still do not receive it
Fedorets, Alexandra; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 28/29, pp. 223-231
There has been a universal statutory minimum wage in Germany for a good four years, but many employees still do not receive it. This is the finding of new calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which have updated noncompliance with the minimum wage for 2017. Even conservative...
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Survival Skills : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles
Drayse, Mark - 2016
Recent welfare reform legislation mandates that aid recipients become employed and economically self-sufficient. The allowable interval of continuous assistance is limited to 24 months for current recipients and 18 months for new recipients, with a lifetime limit of five years on welfare. At...
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...
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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009
literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the …, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a Blinder-Oaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298714
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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009
literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the …, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a Blinder-Oaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271220
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Die Bedeutung der Beschäftigtenstruktur für die Lohnverteilung
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin; Zecher, Martin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 95 (2015) 10, pp. 689-695
education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis … compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from … background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this …
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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2009
literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the …, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a Blinder-Oaxaca type decomposition of the changes in the entire wage … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824215
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Die Bedeutung der Beschäftigtenstruktur für die Lohnverteilung
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin; Zecher, Martin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 95 (2015) 10, pp. 689-695
education, i.e., groups that are characterised by higher relative wages and higher within-group wage inequality. Our analysis … compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. Empirical evidence based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from … background of the labour force can explain up to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality during this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347941
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Does composition matter? : wage inequality and the demographic and educational structure of the labor force in Gemany
Klemm, Marcus; Weigert, Benjamin - 2014 - This version: November 2014
/or better education. These groups are characterized by higher relative wages as well as higher within-group wage inequality …. Mechanically, these compositional shifts entail a rise in wage inequality. We demonstrate this mechanism theoretically and present … to one quarter of the observed increase in aggregate wage inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429242
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...
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