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From Gross to Net Wages in German Administrative Data Sets

Hourly Wages in Lower Deciles No Longer Lagging behind When It Comes to Wage Growth

For many years, only better-paid workers benefited from Germany’s real wage increases. In contrast, dependent employees with lower hourly wages suffered substantial losses, while the low-wage sector expanded. Around 2010, these trends came to an end. Now all wage groups benefit from wage increases—even if those in the middle of the distribution lag somewhat behind. At the very least, this new pattern ...

Real Hourly Wages: Low-Paid Workers Are Not Being Left Behind: Eight Questions for Alexander Kritikos

Hourly wages in lower deciles no longer lagging behind when it comes to wage growth

For many years, only better-paid workers benefited from Germany’s real wage increases. In contrast, dependent employees with lower hourly wages suffered substantial losses, while the low-wage sector expanded. Around 2010, these trends came to an end. Now all wage groups benefit from wage increases—even if those in the middle of the distribution lag somewhat behind. At the very least, this ...

Call for proposals for the 2018 IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees - Deadline September 30 for the 2018 Survey

The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to submit proposal for questions to be added to the questionnaire in 2018—the third wave of the survey. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current or future research and that would benefit from the longitudinal character of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP  Survey of Refugees, we would be happy ...

"Real hourly wages: low-paid workers are not being left behind": eight questions for Alexander S. Kritikos

Mr. Kritikos, you’ve investigated the development of gross hourly wages in Germany. How have these wages developed since Germany’s reunification? Immediately after reunification, there were substantial hourly wage increases, up through 1997 or 1998. After that, growth was minimal through 2004, followed by wage losses until 2010. Since 2010, after the financial crisis, wages started picking ...

Junior research group “Time policy – how can social policy help to manage critical phases over the life course?”

The research group is concerned with time policy as one element of social policy. Time policy allows individuals and households to cope with time conflicts during critical phases in their employment biographies. Time policy includes measures and benefits that enable employees to use their time resources according to their preferences, irrespective of their income. We identify critical phases in...

Financial Stability - Why is it Relevant for Central Banks, Research, and Teaching?

The Berlin Economics Research Associates (BERA) Program and the DIW Graduate Center invite you to this year’s BERA Soirée, featuring Prof. Dr. Claudia Buch, Vice President of the BundesbankModeration: Prof. Frank Heinemann, Technical University Berlin The discussion will be followed by a reception. To participate, we kindly ask you to register by May, 24 by emailing Andrea Bawamia (...

Not Just Any Child Care Center? Social and Ethnic Disparities in the Early Education Institutions with a Beneficial Learning Environment

This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with universal state-subsidized provision and low fees. Based on the German National Educational Panel Study—Kindergarten Cohort from 2011, we matched data on 587 groups in 253 ECEC centers with information on about 1,700 children ...

Pricing and Capacity Provision in Electricity Markets: An Experimental Study

The creation of adequate investment incentives has been of great concern in the restructuring of the electricity sector. However, to achieve this, regulators have applied different market designs across countries and regions. In this paper we employ laboratory methods to explore the relationship between market design, capacity provision and pricing in electricity markets. Subjects act as firms, choosing ...