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Is Being Tough Helpful? Search Requirements, Sanction Threats and Time to Job Finding

(joint with Patrick Arni) The enforcement of job search requirements is increasingly employed to determine the level of search effort provided by unemployment insurance recipients. We evaluate the impacts of this policy on the rate of job finding. Previous research on job search monitoring has focused on the effects of an imposed benefit sanction. By estimating the impacts of requirement policies...

Negative reciprocal inclinations drive workers' reaction to perceived contract breaches: Evidence on heterogeneous responses of public sector workers to a retrenchment of pension rights

Abstract: We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in job motivation the stronger workers' negatively reciprocal inclinations are. We exploit unique matched survey and administrative data on male employees in the public sector in the Netherlands...

Social Insurance and Retirement: A Cross-Country Perspective

Poor, Unemployed, and Politically Inactive?

by Martin Kroh and Christian Könnecke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study ...

"The Poor and Unemployed Show Less Political Interest". Seven Questions to Martin Kroh

in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014"The Poor and Unemployed Show Less Political Interest". Seven Questions to Martin Kroh

Reduction in Income Inequality Faltering

by  Markus M. Grabka and Jan Goebel in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income ...

Leisure Behavior of Young People: Education-Oriented Activities Becoming Increasingly Prevalent

by Adrian Hille, Annegret Arnold and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Young people's leisure activities are significantly different today than they were ten years ago. The obvious use of communication and entertainment electronics, such as cell phones, computers, and games consoles is only one aspect - there are also less visible changes: informal activities such as meeting with ...

Poor, Unemployed, and Politically Inactive?

People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed an upward trend over the ...

The Poor and Unemployed Show Less Political Interest: Seven Questions to Martin Kroh

Reduction in Income Inequality Faltering

Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income distribution based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that the ...