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-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may well have different associations with well-being across the lifespan …-economic panel (SOEP), this investigation considers the relationship between temporary employment, age and well-being. In doing so …, it both sheds new light on the relationship between temporary employment and well-being, and explores a reason for the …
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increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours … employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … changes in employment and wage distribution. Contrary to expectations, our results show that the introduction of the minimum …
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increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours … employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … changes in employment and wage distribution. Contrary to expectations, our results show that the introduction of the minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479233
hours became increasingly differentiated, and starting in 2005, the unemployment rate fell. While the employment increase … the median range, regular types of employment were recently as frequent as they were 20 years ago and unemployment also …This report examines how income groups and forms of employment in Germany have changed in the past two decades. Since …
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Numerous articles have looked at the connection between adverse birth outcomes (low birth weight or preterm birth) and an individual's later socioeconomic status. To this day very few studies have been conducted that specifically address how delivery and adverse birth outcomes affect families...
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unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study …
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the minimum wage receive a lower wage in their main employment. And they are joined by around a half a million persons in … secondary employment. The contractually agreed wages of the ten percent of employees with the lowest wages did indeed rise by …
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Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly...
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This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...
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This paper compiles a multidimensional poverty index for Germany. Drawing on the capability approach as conceptual framework, I apply the Alkire-Foster method using German panel data. I suggest new operationalizations for two dimensions: social participation and practical reason, the latter...
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