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Germany did not establish a statutory minimum wage until 2015. The new wage floor was set at an initial level of €8.50 per hour. When it was introduced, about 11 percent of German employees earned less than that amount. Based on descriptive figures, qualitative research and difference-in-differences analyses, we provide an overview of the available evidence regarding some of the topics that have attracted ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
53 (2019), 1, 10
| Oliver Bruttel
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Traditional approaches in migration studies suggest that self-employment and entrepreneurial activities enhance the perspectives of economic advancement of immigrants in host countries. Therefore, in many popular destinations in Western Europe and Northern America, policies encouraging the self-employment of immigrants have been proposed. But does the self-employment contribute to the economic integration ...
In:
Journal of Entrepreneurship Management and Innovation
15 (2019), 2, 11-28
| Jan Brzozowski, Anke Lasek
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The present paper analyzes how the statutory minimum wage introduced on January 1, 2015, has affected working hours in Germany up to 2016. The data used come from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which provides not only contractual working hours but also actual hours worked. Using a difference-in-differences estimation approach, we find a significant and robust reduction in contractual working hours ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 2-3, 233-267
| Patrick Burauel, Marco Caliendo, Markus M. Grabka, Cosima Obst, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder
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In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
54 (2020), February 2020, 3-25
| Jule Adriaans, Peter Valet, Stefan Liebig
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We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At the aggregate level, the main ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1071)
| Michelle Acampora, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus M. Grabka
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees and female irregular migrants are ...
In:
Journal of Development Economics
152 (2021), (September 2021), 102681
| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its extensive and intensive margin: When the extensive margin dominates, people (wrongly) believe they are healthy ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
76 (2021), 102425
| Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Goette, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany (N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
35 (2021), 1, 85-102
| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
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We study the impact of the macroeconomic environment on mental health in Germany. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic fluctuations is estimated from regional variations in historical industry sector composition. Estimation results reveal strong procyclical effects on the 12-item short form survey’s mental health component ...
In:
European Economic Review
140 (2020), November 2021, 103915
| Daniel Avdic, Sonja C. de New, Daniel A. Kamhöfer
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Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante simulations (e.g. Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2019,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1805)
| Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller