We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into the regional wage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrast to previous studies, we construct two regional ...
In:
Labour Economics
53 (2018), S. 46-62
| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted groups. This serves as an indication of the minority’s perceived maltreatment by German institutions while investigating ...
It is well known that the self-employed are over-represented at the bottom as well as the top of the income distribution. This paper shifts the focus from the income situation of the self-employed to the distributive effects of a change in self-employment rates. With representative German data and unconditional quantile regression analysis we show that an increase in the proportion of self-employed ...
This paper proposes a measure for deprivation in social participation, an important but so far neglected dimension of human well-being. Operationalisation and empirical implementation of the measure are conceptually guided by the capability approach. Essentially, the paper argues that deprivation in social participation can be convincingly established by drawing on extensive non-participation in customary ...
Tutzing:
Akademie für Politische Bildung,
2018,
153 S.
(Tutzinger Diskurs ; 4)
| Anselm Böhmer, Ann-Christin Damm, Firengiz Degler,Merima Džaferović, Simon Goebel, Christian Hofmann,Karin Hutflötz, Jannes Jacobsen, Erdoğan Karakaya,Annette Korntheuer, Uwe Kraus, Asya Markova, Dennis Mehmet, Armaghan Naghipour, Elke Reinhart
In dieser Arbeit werden Bestimmungsfaktoren der Einkommensentwicklung in Deutschland zwischenPersonen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund mittels des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)untersucht. Nach theoretischer Auseinandersetzung mit den Determinanten, gegliedert nachsoziodemografischen, individuellen, sozialen und arbeitsmarktspezifischen Merkmalen, wird der Effektjener auf die abhängige Variable ...