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The country factor on regional income distributions in Europe: A functional ANOVA approach

Immigrants’ Changing Position in Germany’s Labor Market Institutions

As Germany works to get its refugee population into employment, immigrant labor market assimilation has become a major policy concern. The German economy has undergone significant structural changes since the first cohort of guest workers arrived over a half century ago, with the corporatist features that defined the German model now much weaker. This report examines how this shift towards greater ...

The Industrial Structure of German Earnings 1980-1990

Blue Collar Labor Vulnerability: Wage Impacts of Migration

Native Wage Impacts of Foreign Labour: A Random Effects Panel Analysis

Longitudinal Transactions Between Personality and Occupational Roles: A Large and Heterogeneous Study of Job Beginners, Stayers, and Changers

Social norms are central to theoretical accounts of longitudinal person-environment transactions. On the one hand, individuals are thought to select themselves into social roles that fit their personality. On the other hand, it is assumed that individuals' personality is transformed by the socializing pressure of norm demands. These two transactional directions were investigated in a large and ...

Uncovering the Power of Personality to Shape Income

The notion of person-environment fit implies that personal and contextual factors interact in influencing important life outcomes. Using data from 8,458 employed individuals, we examined the combined effects of individuals’ actual personality traits and jobs’ expert-rated personality demands on earnings. Results from a response surface analysis indicated that the fit between individuals’ actual personality ...

Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost completely dependent on connection to a particular technology (DSL). We therefore exploit the variation in ...

Variance estimation for sensitivity analysis of poverty and inequality measures

Estimates of poverty and inequality are often based on application of a single equivalence scale, despite the fact that a large number of different equivalence scales can be found in the literature. This paper describes a framework for sensitivity analysis which can be used to account for the variability of equivalence scales and allows to derive variance estimates of results of sensitivity analysis. ...

Maintaining One’s Living Standard at Old Age: What Does that Mean? Evidence Using Panel Data from Germany

How much retirement income is needed in order to maintain one’s living standard at old age? As it is difficult to find a firm basis for an empirical treatment of this question, we employ a novel approach to assessing an adequate replacement rate vis-à-vis income in the pre-retirement period. We subject indications regarding satisfaction with current income as collected in the German Socio-Economic ...