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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Wandel des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes seit Mitte der 90er Jahre, wobei der Fokus auf der Entwicklung der Arbeitsmarktsegmentierung oder der „Dualisierung“ der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in Deutschland liegt. Während die Dualisierung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes teilweise auf Arbeitsmarktreformen, die vor allem verschiedene Arten von atypischer Beschäftigung ...

Some Econometric Evidence on the Effectiveness of Active Labour Market Programmes in East Germany

In this paper we summarise our previous results on the effectiveness of different kinds of labour market training programmes as well as employment programmes in East Germany after unification. All the studies use the microeconometric evaluation approach and are based on different types of matching estimators. We find some positive earnings effect for on-the-job training and also some positive employment ...

Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training in East Germany: Institutional Arrangements, Participants, and Results of Empirical Evaluations

Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality

We document the degree of educational assortative mating, how it evolves over time, and the extent to which it differs between countries. Our analysis focuses on the United States but also uses data from Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Norway. We find evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in each country. However, the time trends vary by the level of education: ...

Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

'Die Vitalität und Stabilität der Demokratie - auch der Wirtschaft - hängen letztlich eminent von der Durchlässigkeit der Gesellschaft ab.' (Horst Köhler, Bundespräsident, 29. 12. 2007)In dieser Studie wird die Frage der Durchlässigkeit der Gesellschaft, die nach Ansicht des Bundespräsidenten (siehe Eingangszitat) eine wichtige Grundlage der Vitalität und Stabilität der Demokratie ist, empirisch ...

The Case of West Germany - Flexibility and continuity in the German labour market (Chapter IX)

Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rates?

The Anticipation and Adaptation Effects of Intra- and Interpersonal Wage Changes on Job Satisfaction

This paper analyses how individual job satisfaction is affected by wage changes. In order to account for potential dynamic effects of wage changes on job satisfaction, we include lead and lag effects of income changes in our analysis. Furthermore, we examine the role of social comparisons, i.e., how an individual’s job satisfaction is driven not only by changes in his wages, but also by the size of ...

Your House, Your Car, Your Education: The Socioeconomic Situation of the Neighborhood and its Impact on Life Satisfaction in Germany

This study deals with the impact of socioeconomic conditions and social integration into a local neighborhood on individual life satisfaction in Germany. While the majority of ecological studies to date are based on very broad neighborhood concepts, using large research units for defining neighborhood the present study contains micro-geographic information on a representative sample of private households ...

DIW Berlin 2005 Annual Report