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DIW Discussion Papers 1001 / 2010
Der Beitrag geht davon aus, dass sich in den Spitzengremien der großen Unternehmen bestehende Chancenungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und in der Gesellschaft kristallisieren. In den Vorständen der größten privaten Unternehmen in Deutschland besteht eine männliche Monokultur. In den Aufsichtsräten wird sie nur deshalb etwas gemildert, weil die Arbeitnehmervertretungen rund ...
2010| Elke Holst, Anita Wiemer
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DIW Discussion Papers 1000 / 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the basis of a microsimulation model which accounts for the complex interactions between individual wages, the tax-benefit system and net household incomes, also ...
2010| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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DIW Wochenbericht 18 / 2010
Existenzgründer aus Arbeitslosigkeit schaffen nicht nur ihren eigenen Arbeitsplatz, der in vielen Fällen dauerhaft Bestand hat. Häufig geben diese Selbständigen auch weiteren Menschen Arbeit. Wie eine gemeinsame Studie des DIW Berlin und des Instituts für die Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA Bonn) indes zeigt, hängt der Grad des unternehmerischen Erfolgs entscheidend von den Motiven der Gründer ab. Je stärker ...
2010| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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DIW Wochenbericht 18 / 2010
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DIW Discussion Papers 1008 / 2010
We analyze the bargaining problem of an incumbent firm and a union when the wage contract becomes generally binding. Our main application relates to competition among operators of mail delivery networks. We describe the Deutsche Post case which highlights the raising rivals' costs incentive and its consequences resulting from labor laws that make collective agreements generally binding. We show that ...
2010| Sven Heitzler, Christian Wey
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DIW Discussion Papers 1015 / 2010
Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers initially do not observe, such as the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) score, grows with experience. If ...
2010| Hani Mansour
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DIW Discussion Papers 1014 / 2010
Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in each city in the West Bank, the paper analyzes ...
2010| Hani Mansour
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Economics of Security Working Paper Series 33 / 2010
In this paper we study the response of vote shares to economic fluctuations and conflict. Spain seems to be the ideal niche for a case study like this since it has experienced both phenomena during the last decades. Recent Spanish democratic history has witnessed four complete economic cycles, with deep recessions and pronounced booms. During this period, there has been a nationalistic conflict with ...
2010| Javier Gardeazabal
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SOEPpapers 300 / 2010
The present paper investigates the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German service sector for the period 1995-2006. Combiningmicro-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts of international trade on (1) the individually reported fear of job loss and (2) job-to-unemployment ...
2010| Maren Lurweg
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SOEPpapers 301 / 2010
In der ökonomischen Zufriedenheitsforschung wird ein negativer Effekt von Kindern auf die elterliche Zufriedenheit ermittelt. Dazu werden oftmals Probitmodelle geschätzt. In diesem Papier wird nun ein fixed effects Modell benutzt. Mittels Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) werden Personen betrachtet, die im Zeitablauf zu Eltern werden. Es ergibt sich ein signifikant positiver Effekt von Kinder ...
2010| Stephan Humpert