Thema Arbeit und Beschäftigung

Gender Pay Gap in a European Comparison: Positive Correlation between the Female Labor Force Participation Rate and the Gender Pay Gap

Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which vary across countries, are one explanation ...

Risk Preference and Entrepreneurial Investment at the Top of the Wealth Distribution

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using novel survey data from the top of the wealth distribution, which have been added to the 2019 German Socio-economic Panel Study. The data include private wealth balance sheets, in particular the value of own private business assets, and a standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that ...

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Great Expectations: Reservation Wages and Minimum Wage Reform

This paper is the first causal study using quasi-experimental methods to identify the effect of minimum wages on the reservation wages of non-workers. We exploit variation in regional exposure to the introduction of a high-impact minimum wage in Germany in 2015, combined with survey responses about wage acceptance thresholds of job seekers. Results show a 16% increase in reservation wages among non-employed ...

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The Child Penalty: Implications of Parenthood on Labour Market Outcomes for Men and Women in Germany

Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...

The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Labor markets in low- and middle-income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have been implemented to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplified registration procedures, reductions of payroll taxes, and interventions enforcing formalization. We compile a database of 170 impact estimates from 38 academic ...

The Effect of Exposure to Long Working Hours on Alcohol Consumption, Risky Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this paper, we ...

Corona-Hilfe: In der Pandemie vergessen

Menschen in Minijobs haben keinerlei Anspruch auf Kurzarbeitergeld oder Arbeitslosenhilfe. Hunderttausende verlieren ihre Arbeit, die für viele der Haupterwerb ist. Dieser Beitrag ist am 10. Dezember 2020 in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen erschienen. Hier finden Sie alle Beiträge von Marcel Fratzscher. Mit der zweiten Corona-Welle werden viele Beschäftigte ...

4 Jahre "America First" – Hat Donald Trump seine Ziele erreicht? : Nachgeforscht bei Geraldine Dany-Knedlik

DIW-Ökonomin Geraldine Dany-Knedlik spricht über die Strategie Trumps, Handelsbeschränkungen einzuführen, um so die Produktion in den USA zu stärken. Nach den vier Jahren ist zu sehen, dass dies nicht funktioniert hat: Dinge, die im Ausland produziert werden wie z.B. Waschmaschinen oder Alumnium werden nach der Einführung von Einfuhrzöllen nicht automatisch im eigenen Land produziert und führen...