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This cumulative thesis contributes to the investigation of the wage and wealth consequences of temporary employment in and outside of Europe by answering three more specific research questions in four articles. These are all motivated by recent large-scale global trends such as globalization and technological change, which have increased labor market uncertainties over the last few decades. The first ...
2023,
| Sophia Fauser
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Do trade unions benefit from economic crises by attracting new members among workers concerned about job security? To address this question, we provide a comprehensive empirical investigation based on panel data from Germany, where workers individually decide on their membership. We analyse whether exogenously manipulated perceptions of job insecurity encourage individuals to join a union. Firm-level ...
In:
Economica
90 (2023), 359, 1041-1088
| Adrian Chadi, Laszlo Goerke
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Technological change and globalisation have been transforming the structure of labour demand in favour of workers performing cognitive tasks. Even though past research has found that labour force participation is an important determinant of fertility behaviour, few studies have addressed the fertility effects of the long-term structural changes of labour market. To fill this gap, we measure the cognitive ...
Warsaw:
Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw,
2023,
(Working Papers No. 8/2023 (415))
| Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyzes changes in the gender pay gap in West Germany between 1984 and 2020. The literature generally observes a catching-up of women over time with a slowdown since the mid-1990s and often concentrates on the USA. We present both an aggregate and detailed decomposition of changes in wages allowing us to directly test for changes in the components ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
57 (2023), 1, 11
| Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Carolina Castagnetti, Luisa Rosti
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Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent, which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of workers’ gross wages, this finding suggests that it pays off to be a union member. Our results show that the ...
In:
Economies
11 (2023), 2, 50
| Marina Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Claus Schnabel
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The last decades have witnessed an unprecedented increase in women’s economic independence through higher educational attainment, labor force participation and an increase in the share of female-led households. However, up to date there is a gap in the literature concerning how this increase in independence has translated into women’s living standards, measured through disposable income. Using a combination ...
Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2022,
(LIS Working Paper Series No. 849)
| Ariane Aumaitre
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On their journeys to and through Europe, refugees and other migrants are commonly subjected to violence in its multifaceted forms. We argue that these “journeys of violence” are a direct effect of a fundamentally uneven and asymmetric global mobility regime that creates frictions and fragmentations in the European border space and beyond. Our argument is based on: (1) a state-of-the-art literature ...
In:
Comparative Population Studies
47 (2022), 211-232
| Rahel Lorenz, Benjamin Etzold
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Existing research on housing cost burden focuses on its evolution over time. Few empirical studies, meanwhile, investigate changes in housing cost burden as a function of age. Literature is also scarce on how people's housing cost burden is affected by the act of retiring. In order to fill this research gap, we examine how the burden of housing costs tends to change after retirement and how the ...
In:
Ageing & Society
(online first) (2023),
| Alberto Lozano Alcántara, Laura Romeu Gordo, Heribert Engstler, Claudia Vogel
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This paper analyzes how people’s subjective well-being adapts to income poverty in Switzerland and Germany and presents two empirical findings. First, financial satisfaction (FS) does not adapt in either country. However, life satisfaction fully adapts in Switzerland but not in Germany. Second, people in income poverty have income lower than their reference income. In the long run, those who remain ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
23 (2022), 6, 2491-2516
| Jianbo J. Luo
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The assumption of stable non-cognitive skills is important in the economic literature. This paper proposes to test this assumption by investigating whether a specific non-cognitive skill, locus of control, is stable after the occurrence of a health-related event, namely a hospital stay. To do so, we use a representative and longitudinal dataset of individuals living in Germany (SOEP). Our results show ...
In:
De Economist
170 (2022), 2, 257-277
| Antoine Marsaudon