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Entries, Exits, and the Dynamics of Employment: Lower Saxony, 1978-1990

Rising In-work Poverty in Times of Activation: Changes in the Distributive Performance of Institutions over Three Decades, Germany 1984–2013

In-work poverty contradicts the belief that a job should provide a decent standard of living. Nevertheless, the share of working poor in most European countries has risen. Studies show that the development of in-work poverty is attributable to changes in the distributive performance of the labour market, households and the welfare state, as measured by their ability to prevent people from falling below ...

Social Insurance and Occupational Mobility

This paper studies how insurance from progressive taxation improves the matching of workers to occupations. We propose an equilibrium dynamic assignment model to illustrate how social insurance encourages mobility. Workers experiment to find their best occupational fit in a process filled with uncertainty. Risk aversion and limited earnings insurance induce workers to remain in unfitting occupations. ...

Monitoring Economic Performance, Quality of Life and Sustainability. Joint Report as Requested by the Franco-German Ministerial Council

Overview of International Household Panel Studies

Decreasing Wage Mobility in Germany

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest ...

Distributional Effects of the High School Degree in Germany

Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Exit, Voice, and Suffering: Do Couples Adapt to Changing Employment Patterns?