Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those out of the labour force and especially those in employment. The focus of our analyses is on the pattern ...
Germany and Spain are typically regarded as ‘rigid’ economies, yet both have had different experiences of fixed-term jobs. Using quantile regression we find that in West Germany the earnings of permanent and fixed-term workers are most similar among high earners and most dissimilar among low earners. In Spain, the wage penalty shows little variation across the distribution of wages. This pattern was ...
Die letzten Jahrzehnte waren vielerorts durch einen außerordentlichen Anstieg privater Verschuldung gekennzeichnet, der nicht nur Wachstum und Wohlstand produzierte, sondern auch in die sozialen und ökonomischen Verwerfungen der Finanzkrise mündete. In Deutschland meint man, von diesem "Pumpkapitalismus " nur wenig zu spüren, denn die historisch eigentümliche Schuldendynamik führte in den ...