Thema Arbeit und Beschäftigung

Home Offices: Plenty of Untapped Potential

As far as the share of individuals with a home office is concerned, Germany is below the EU average and lags considerably behind other countries such as France, the UK, or the Scandinavian countries. Only 12 percent of all employees in Germany work primarily or occasionally from home, although this would theoretically be possible in 40 percent of jobs. In most cases, an employee’s desire to work from ...

Working from Home: Germany Lagging Behind Other European Countries: Six Questions to Karl Brenke

Does Parental Unemployment Affect the Quality of Their Children's First Job?

In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage, permanent position and full-time employment is examined. The results show a negative correlation between fathers' ...

Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?

Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese transformation towards consumption driven growth, they can worsen the price competitiveness in export markets. As they differ throughout the country, this paper investigates their determinants at the regional level. ...

Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that assumptions about the timing of job search have fundamental implications for the pattern of internal migration ...

Home Office: Möglichkeiten werden bei weitem nicht ausgeschöpft

Deutschland liegt beim Anteil der Personen mit Home Office (Heimarbeit) unter dem EU-Durchschnitt und deutlich hinter anderen Ländern wie Frankreich, dem Vereinigten Königreich oder den skandinavischen Ländern zurück. Nur zwölf Prozent aller abhängig Beschäftigten hierzulande arbeiten überwiegend oder gelegentlich von zu Hause aus, obwohl dies bei 40 Prozent der Arbeitsplätze theoretisch möglich wäre. ...

Die Arbeitgeber sollten bei Heimarbeit umdenken: Sechs Fragen an Karl Brenke

Wealth Effects on Job Preferences

Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as a motivation for working. Higher wealth levels may make good non-wage characteristics relatively more important. This hypothesis is tested empirically using a reduced form search model in which differential job leaving rates identify willingness to pay for non-wage aspects of jobs. ...

Maintaining Perceived Control with Unemployment Facilitates Future Adjustment

Unemployment is a major challenge to individuals' development. An important personal resource to ameliorate the negative impact of unemployment may be perceived control, a general-purpose belief system. Little is known, however, about how perceived control itself changes with the experience of unemployment and what the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of such change in perceived control are ...

Corporate Boards of Large Companies: More Momentum Needed for Gender Parity

Germany’s large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good six percent, an increase of less than one percentage point over 2014. The share of women on the supervisory boards of these top 200 companies was almost 20 percent ...