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Job changes often require workers to relocate. However, many workers are not isolated agents but live in couples who make location decisions jointly. When relocation occurs due to a job change by the "main" earner, the other partner becomes a "tied mover" who is likely to benefit less from the move; typically, the latter is the woman, and the "tied-mover penalty" then ...
SSRN:
2025,
| Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Francesca Verga
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Earnings inequality in Germany has increased dramatically. Measuring inequality locally at the level of cities annually since 1985, we find that behind this development is the rapidly worsening inequality in the largest cities, driven by increasing earnings polarisation. In the cross-section, local earnings inequality rises substantially in city size, and this city-size inequality penalty has increased ...
In:
The Journal of Economic Inequality
22 (2024), 3, 531-550
| Christian Schluter, Mark Trede
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For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated and the donation rate was lower (46.8 ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
45/46/2022 (2022), 283-292
| Karsten Schulz-Sandhof, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker's time allocation of job tasks, I test the model's implications and present three main findings. First, workers who ...
Essen:
RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung,
2023,
(Ruhr Economic Papers No. 1021)
| Eduard Storm
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For many attempts to inform evidence-based policymaking (or policy-makers in general) researchers have to rely on already available (instead of newly collected) data. These data have to be reliable, accessible (at best, without high hurdles, and with low or no fees to be paid) and findable. One way that helps to find suitable data that are easily accessible (and hopefully reliable) is to look at the ...
In:
AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv
18 (2024), 2, 279-287
| Joachim Wagner
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A representative survey from August 2022 confirms public support for a universal basic income (UBI): Between 45 and 55 percent of respondents are in favor of a universal basic income and the unconditional financial security it promises. Two representative surveys from August 2022 investigate who exactly UBI supporters are and which UBI model they prefer. The surveys show that younger people in particular ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
21/2023 (2023), 143-150
| Marius R. Busemeyer, Adrian Rinscheid, Jürgen Schupp
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Remittances sent by refugees to their home countries has been a hotly debated policy topic in Germany over the past years and has led to the introduction of a payment card for asylum applicants. This Weekly Report investigates how the share of people living in Germany who send remittances abroad has changed over time according to their migration background (with or without a refugee background) and ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
49/2024 (2024), 301-308
| Adriana Cardozo Silva, Sabine Zinn
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Previous research shows that female workers are less sensitive to wages in their decision to switch jobs than male workers, and that this could explain a substantial part of the gender wage gap. This paper studies to what extent gender differences in preferences and personality traits explain the gender gap in the wage-elasticity of job-to-job transitions in the labor market. Using a novel decomposition ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
58 (2024), 26
| Céline Detilleux, Nick Deschacht
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Homeownership is an important private investment protecting against old-age poverty. With buying a home being an expensive, long-term investment, studies show that insecure employment is a major reason why couples do not make this commitment. We build on these findings, asking what role risk aversion plays in moderating the impact of labour market insecurities on the likelihood of buying a house. We ...
In:
Dirk Hofäcker, Kati Kuitto ,
Youth Employment Insecurity and Pension Adequacy
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
105-124
| Sophia Fauser, Sonja Scheuring
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Roughly a decade ago, the entry and admission of refugees has prominently returned to the political agendas in Europe. With that, researchers and policy-makers have shown increasing interest in factors that determine the participation of refugees in receiving societies, labor markets and education systems. The analyses in this paper address the conflicting views in sociology of migration on whether ...
SocArXiv,
2024,
(SocArXiv Papers)
| Lidwina Gundacker