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European-Wide Inequality in Times of the Financial Crisis

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the last two years of the observation period ...

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by social programs, savings and the labor ...

Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks isprovided by social programs, savings and the labor ...

Gender Income Gap, Arbeistmarktsegregation und patriarchale Gesellschaftsstruktur bei Führungskräften und Selbständigen

In diesem Beitrag wollen wir uns auf zwei Publikationen von Friederike Maier beziehen. Auf den Beitrag „Arbeitsmarktsegregation und patriarchale Gesellschaftsstruktur“ von 1990, in dem es um Erklärungen für die Ungleichbehandlungen von Frauen im Erwerbsleben geht, sowie das Diskussionspapier von 2007 aus der Reihe des Harriet Taylor Mill-Instituts, in dem sie auf „The Persistence of the Gender Wage ...

European-Wide Inequality in Times of the Financial Crisis

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the last two years of the observation period ...

Kein Durchlauferhitzer: Qualifizierung als ausdrücklicher Befristungsgrund

Bundesbildungsministerin Wanka will in Kürze einen Gesetzesentwurf zur Neuregelung des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes vorlegen. Die Autoren plädieren dafür, in die Diskussion eine alltagstaugliche und substanzielle Verbesserung der Personal­entwicklung und Karriereförderung für Wissenschaftler einzubeziehen.

Peers at Work - a Brief Overview of the Literature on Peer Effects at the Workplace and the Policy Implications

Individuals do not exist in isolation but are embedded within networks of relationships, such as families, coworkers, neighbors, friendships or socioeconomic groups. While there is a long tradition in sociology and anthropology focusing on theimportance of social structure, norms and culture, economists have long ignored social influences on individual behavior. Even though social influences may play ...

State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions before and after a Reform

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed after the reform: transitions from welfare ...

Arbeitsmarktintegration: spielt der Geburtsort eine Rolle? Eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten des SOEP zum Zusammenhang zwischen Geburtsort und Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten in Deutschland

Despite of integration efforts, the labor market success of migrants in Germany still lags behind that of the autochthonous German population. Using the IAB-SOEP-Migration Sample 2013, differences between first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany regarding labor market success were investigated. For the analysis, the sample was subdivided into groups based on the country of origin. Labor market ...

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