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Die FDZ-Literaturdatenbank umfasst neben Datensatzbeschreibungen und Methodenberichten die zahlreichen Forschungsarbeiten, die auf Basis der am FDZ angebotenen Daten entstanden sind. Hier finden Sie aktuell laufende Projekte von FDZ-Nutzenden.
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    Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay (2024)

    Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan;

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    Amior, Michael & Jan Stuhler (2024): Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay. (CEP discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance 1971), London, 89 S.

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    "We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms can exploit "cheap" migrant labor by offering lower wages, though at the cost of forgoing potential native hires who demand higher wages. This monopsonistic trade-off can lead to large negative effects on native employment, which exceed those in competitive models, and which are concentrated among low-paying firms. To validate these predictions, we study changes in wage premia and employment across the firm pay distribution, during a large immigration wave in Germany. These adverse effects are not inevitable and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit: Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage der Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien und der Verdienststrukturerhebung (2024)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Rulff, Christian ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Fernanda Martínez Flores & Christian Rulff (2024): Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit. Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage der Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien und der Verdienststrukturerhebung. In: Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, Jg. 18, H. 1, S. 15-36. DOI:10.1007/s11943-023-00323-z

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    "Die Lohnlücke zwischen Personen, die innerhalb und außerhalb der Zeitarbeit beschäftigt sind, wird in Deutschland auf Grundlage verschiedener Datensätze berechnet, was teilweise zu sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen führt. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit daher anhand zweier Datensätze, den Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien (IEB) des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und der Verdienststrukturerhebung (VSE) des Statistischen Bundesamtes. Hierzu wird die Lohnlücke auf Basis der beiden Mikrodatensätze mithilfe verschiedener ökonometrischer Verfahren analysiert. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass beim Vergleich von öffentlichen Statistiken auf eine Vergleichbarkeit der zugrundeliegenden Stichprobe geachtet werden sollte. Die Lohnlücke bei den Monatslöhnen ist bei Verwendung von IEB-Daten etwas größer als bei VSE-Daten, was auf Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der Stichprobe zurückzuführen ist. Die ökonometrische Analyse der Monatslöhne ergibt für beide Datensätze, dass die bereinigte Lohnlücke, d. h. die Lohnlücke nach Kontrolle für beobachtbare Charakteristika, deutlich geringer ausfällt als die unbereinigte Lohnlücke. Eine zusätzliche Analyse der Stundenlöhne auf Grundlage der VSE zeigt, dass die bereinigte Lohnlücke nahe null liegt. Dies deutet darauf hin, dass die Arbeitszeit eine wichtige Rolle für die Lohnlücke spielt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Anhaltende berufliche Geschlechtersegregation: In Ost wie West arbeiten Frauen und Männer häufig in unterschiedlichen Berufen (2024)

    Bächmann, Ann-Christin ; Schels, Brigitte ; Kleinert, Corinna ;

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    Bächmann, Ann-Christin, Corinna Kleinert & Brigitte Schels (2024): Anhaltende berufliche Geschlechtersegregation: In Ost wie West arbeiten Frauen und Männer häufig in unterschiedlichen Berufen. (IAB-Kurzbericht 03/2024), Nürnberg, 8 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.KB.2403

    Abstract

    "Trotz einer Annäherung der Arbeitsmärkte zeichnen sich Ost- und Westdeutschland bis heute durch markante Unterschiede in der Branchenstruktur sowie in der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen aus. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersuchen die Autorinnen, ob und wie sich auch die berufliche Trennung von Frauen und Männern unterscheidet. Der Kurzbericht zeigt: Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt besteht die ausgeprägte berufliche Geschlechtersegregation fort – in Ost- wie in Westdeutschland. Im Untersuchungszeitraum zwischen 2012 und 2019 ist das Ausmaß der beruflichen Trennung von Frauen und Männern nur leicht zurückgegangen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality (2024)

    Böhm, Michael J. ; Schran, Felix; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von;

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    Böhm, Michael J., Hans-Martin von Gaudecker & Felix Schran (2024): Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 42, H. 1, S. 201-243. DOI:10.1086/722084

    Abstract

    "We study the relationship between occupational employment, occupational wages,and wage inequality. In all occupations, entrants and leavers earn less than stayers, suggesting negative selection effects for growing occupations and positive effects for shrinking ones. We estimate a model of occupational prices and skills, which includes specific skill accumulation and endogenous switching. Contrary to uncorrected wages, prices and employment growth are positively related. 40% of selectionis due to age in that entrants and leavers have had less time to accumulate skills.The remainder is Roy-type selection. Skill prices establish a quantitative Connection of occupational changes with surging wage inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Der Equal Pay Day unter der Lupe: Die Lohnlücke zwischen Männern und Frauen unterscheidet sich je nach Region erheblich (2024)

    Collischon, Matthias ; Zimmermann, Florian ;

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    Collischon, Matthias & Florian Zimmermann (2024): Der Equal Pay Day unter der Lupe: Die Lohnlücke zwischen Männern und Frauen unterscheidet sich je nach Region erheblich. In: IAB-Forum H. 04.03.2024. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240304.01

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    "Am 6. März ist der deutsche Equal Pay Day. Er zeigt an, wie viele Tage Frauen im Durchschnitt zusätzlich arbeiten müssten, um das durchschnittliche Gehalt von Männern zu erreichen. Bei genauerer Betrachtung werden jedoch erhebliche regionale Unterschiede deutlich. So wäre der Equal Pay Day in Sachsen-Anhalt rechnerisch bereits am 13. Januar gewesen, in Baden-Württemberg wäre er jedoch erst am 8. April." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers (2024)

    Damelang, Andreas ; Otto, Michael;

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    Damelang, Andreas & Michael Otto (2024): Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 181-206. DOI:10.1177/07308884231162953

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    "We study the effects of robotization on unemployment risk for different types of workers. We examine the extent to which robotization increases inequality at the skill level and at the occupational level using two theoretical frameworks: skill-biased technological change and task-biased technological change. Empirically, we combine worker-level data with information on actual investments in industrial robots. Zooming in on the German manufacturing industry, our multivariate results show that robotization affects different types of workers differently. We do not observe an increase in unemployment risk for low- and medium-skilled, but we find a considerably lower unemployment risk among high-skilled workers. Moreover, the unemployment risk is significantly higher in occupations with highly substitutable tasks, but only in industries that invest largely in robots." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © SAGE) ((en))

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    Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants (2024)

    Dustmann, Christian; Surovtseva, Tetyana; Ku, Hyejin;

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    Dustmann, Christian, Hyejin Ku & Tetyana Surovtseva (2024): Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants. In: The Economic Journal, Jg. 134, H. 657, S. 271-294. DOI:10.1093/ej/uead066

    Abstract

    "We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but subsequently catch up to those arriving with less favourable exchange rates, through transition to better-paying occupations and firms. Similar patterns hold in the United States data. Our analysis offers one explanation for the widespread phenomenon of immigrants' downgrading, with new implications for immigrant cohort effects and assimilation profiles." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Internal migration after a uniform minimum wage introduction (2024)

    Moog, Alexander;

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    Moog, Alexander (2024): Internal migration after a uniform minimum wage introduction. (arXiv papers 2404.19590), 47 S. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2404.19590

    Abstract

    "Internal migration is an essential aspect to study labor mobility. I exploit the German statutory minimum wage introduction in 2015 to estimate its push and pull effects on internal migration using a 2% sample of administrative data. In a conditional fixed effects Poisson difference-in-differences framework with a continuous treatment, I find that the minimum wage introduction leads to an increase in the out-migration of low-skilled workers with migrant background by 25% with an increasing tendency over time from districts where a high share of workers are subject to the minimum wage (high-bite districts). In contrast the migration decision of native-born low-skilled workers is not affected by the policy. However, both native-born low-skilled workers and those with a migrant background do relocate across establishments, leaving high-bite districts as their workplace. In addition, I find an increase for unemployed individuals with a migrant background in out-migrating from high-bite districts. These results emphasize the importance of considering the effects on geographical labor mobility when implementing and analyzing policies that affect the determinants of internal migration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement (2024)

    Neffke, Frank ; Wiederhold, Simon; Nedelkoska, Ljubica ;

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    Neffke, Frank, Ljubica Nedelkoska & Simon Wiederhold (2024): Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement. (IWH-Diskussionspapiere / Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle 2023,11), Halle, 67 S.

    Abstract

    "Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill shortage, we analyze the work histories of individuals in Germany between 1975 and 2010. We estimate difference in-differences models, using a sample of displaced workers who are matched to statistically similar non-displaced workers. We find that displacements increase the probability of occupational change eleven-fold. Moreover, the magnitude of postdisplacement earnings losses strongly depends on the type of skill mismatch that workers experience in such job switches. Whereas skill shortages are associated with relatively quick returns to the counterfactual earnings trajectories that displaced workers would have experienced absent displacement, skill redundancy sets displaced workers on paths with permanently lower earnings. We show that these differences can be attributed to differences in mismatch after displacement, and not to intrinsic differences between workers making different post-displacement. career choices" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2024)

    Thomsen, Stephan L. ; Trunzer, Johannes;

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    Thomsen, Stephan L. & Johannes Trunzer (2024): Did the Bologna Process Challenge the German Apprenticeship System? Evidence from a Natural Experiment. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. accepted manuscript, S. 1-87. DOI:10.1086/730273

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    "The Bologna Process reformed the German university system by introducing three-year undergraduate degrees. We evaluate the effects on the dual apprenticeship system where 29% of new apprentices are also qualified for university. For identification, we exploit regional and temporal variation in reform adoption, using administrative student and labor market data from 1997 to 2015. The Bologna reform implementation reduced the number of new highly educated apprentices considerably. In particular, clerical apprenticeships were affected. Firms did not substitute with less-educated apprentices, but partly replaced the lower supply of new highly educated apprentices with university graduates in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Chicago University Press) ((en))

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    Sources of Wage Growth (2023)

    Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian;

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    Adda, Jerome & Christian Dustmann (2023): Sources of Wage Growth. In: Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 131, H. 2, S. 456-503. DOI:10.1086/721657

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    "This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability, the accumulation of cognitive-abstract or routine-manual skills, and whether workers enroll in vocational training at the start of their career. Our analysis uses longitudinal administrative data over three decades and shows that routine-manual skills drive early wage growth, while cognitive-abstract skills become more important later. Moreover, job amenities are an important determinant of mobility decisions. Vocational training has long-term effects on career outcomes through various channels and generates returns for both the individual and society." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities (2023)

    Arntz, Melanie ; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich; Neidhöfer, Guido ; Lipowski, Cäcilia;

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    Arntz, Melanie, Cäcilia Lipowski, Guido Neidhöfer & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (2023): Computers as Stepping Stones? Technological Change and Equality of Labor Market Opportunities. In: Journal of labor economics online erschienen am 21.08.2023, S. 1-41. DOI:10.1086/727490

    Abstract

    "This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by increasing the returns to skills relative to the returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, the introduction of computer technologies improved the access to technology-adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also show that this significantly contributed to a decline in the overall wage penalty experienced by workers from disadvantaged parental back-grounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill-upgrading, do not explain these findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling (2023)

    Bach, Ruben L. ; Mautner, Hannah; Kreuter, Frauke ; Kern, Christoph ;

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    Bach, Ruben L., Christoph Kern, Hannah Mautner & Frauke Kreuter (2023): The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling. In: Data & policy, Jg. 5. DOI:10.1017/dap.2023.29

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    "Statistical profiling of job seekers is an attractive option to guide the activities of public employment services. Many hope that algorithms will improve both efficiency and effectiveness of employment services’ activities that are so far often based on human judgment. Against this backdrop, we evaluate regression and machine-learning models for predicting job-seekers’ risk of becoming long-term unemployed using German administrative labor market data. While our models achieve competitive predictive performance, we show that training an accurate prediction model is just one element in a series of design and modeling decisions, each having notable effects that span beyond predictive accuracy. We observe considerable variation in the cases flagged as high risk across models, highlighting the need for systematic evaluation and transparency of the full prediction pipeline if statistical profiling techniques are to be implemented by employment agencies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Cambridge University Press) ((en))

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    Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation (2023)

    Balgová, Mária; Illing, Hannah;

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    Balgová, Mária & Hannah Illing (2023): Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation. (ECONtribute discussion paper 246), Köln ; Bonn, 68 S.

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    "This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff separately for migrants and natives. We show that job displacement affects the two groups differently even when we systematically control for pre-layoff differences in their characteristics: migrants have on average higher earnings losses, and they find it much more difficult to find employment. However, those who do find a new job experience faster wage growth compared to displaced natives. We examine several potential mechanisms and find that these gaps are driven by labor market conditions, such as local migrant networks and labor market tightness, rather than migrants' behavior." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019 (2023)

    Bauluz, Luis; Novokmet, Filip; Breau, S.; Bukowski, P.; Lee, Neil ; Lee, A.; Malgouyres, Clément; López Forero, M.; Fransham, M.; Verdugo, Gregory ; Schularick, Moritz;

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    Bauluz, Luis, P. Bukowski, M. Fransham, A. Lee, M. López Forero, Filip Novokmet, S. Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick & Gregory Verdugo (2023): Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019. (Kiel working paper / Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung Globaler Ökonomischer Herausforderungen 2253), Kiel, 44 S.

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    "The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that studies the relationship between national and subnational economic inequality. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to create internationally comparable evidence showing how different countries perform in terms of geographic wage inequalities. We create cross-country comparable measures of spatial wage disparities between and within similarly-defined local labour market areas (LLMAs) for Canada, France, (West) Germany, the UK and the US since the 1970s, and assess their contribution to national inequality. By the end of the 2010s, spatial inequalities in LLMA mean wages are similar in Canada, France, Germany and the UK; the US exhibits the highest degree of spatial inequality. Over the study period, spatial inequalities have nearly doubled in all countries, except for France where spatial inequalities have fallen back to 1970s levels. Due to a concomitant increase in within-place inequality, the contribution of places in explaining national wage inequality has remained fairly constant over the 40-year study period, except in the UK where we document a significant increase. Whilst common global social, economic and technological shocks are important drivers of spatial inequality, this variation in levels and trends of spatial inequality opens the way to comparative research exploring the role of national institutions in mediating how global shocks translate into economic disparities between places." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019 (2023)

    Bauluz, Luis; Breau, Sébastien; Bukowski, Pawel; Lee, Neil ; Lee, Annie; Malgouyres, Clément; Novokmet, Filip; Fransham, Mark ; López Forero, Margarita; Verdugo, Gregory ; Schularick, Moritz;

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    Bauluz, Luis, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita López Forero, Filip Novokmet, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick & Gregory Verdugo (2023): Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019. (World Inequality Lab - Working Paper 2023/14), Paris, 44 S.

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    "The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that studies the relationship between national and subnational economic inequality. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to create internationally comparable evidence showing how different countries perform in terms of geographic wage inequalities. We create cross-country comparable measures of spatial wage disparities between and within similarly-defined local labour market areas (LLMAs) for Canada, France, (West) Germany, the UK and the US since the 1970s, and assess their contribution to national inequality. By the end of the 2010s, spatial inequalities in LLMA mean wages are similar in Canada, France, Germany and the UK; the US exhibits the highest degree of spatial inequality. Over the study period, spatial inequalities have nearly doubled in all countries, except for France where spatial inequalities have fallen back to 1970s levels. Due to a concomitant increase in within-place inequality, the contribution of places in explaining national wage inequality has remained fairly constant over the 40-year study period, except in the UK where we document a significant increase. Whilst common global social, economic and technological shocks are important drivers of spatial inequality, this variation in levels and trends of spatial inequality opens the way to comparative research exploring the role of national institutions in mediating how global shocks translate into economic disparities between places." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019 (2023)

    Bauluz, Luis; Lee, Neil ; Breau, Sébastien; Verdugo, Gregory ; Bukowski, Pawel; Novokmet, Filip; Malgouyres, Clément; López Forero, Margarita; Schularick, Moritz; Lee, Annie; Fransham, Mark ;

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    Bauluz, Luis, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita López Forero, Filip Novokmet, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick & Gregory Verdugo (2023): Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019. (LSE International Inequalities Institute. Working paper 98), London, 44 S.

    Abstract

    "The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that studies the relationship between national and subnational economic inequality. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to create internationally comparable evidence showing how different countries perform in terms of geographic wage inequalities. We create cross-country comparable measures of spatial wage disparities between and within similarly-defined local labour market areas (LLMAs) for Canada, France, (West) Germany, the UK and the US since the 1970s, and assess their contribution to national inequality. By the end of the 2010s, spatial inequalities in LLMA mean wages are similar in Canada, France, Germany and the UK; the US exhibits the highest degree of spatial inequality. Over the study period, spatial inequalities have nearly doubled in all countries, except for France where spatial inequalities have fallen back to 1970s levels. Due to a concomitant increase in within-place inequality, the contribution of places in explaining national wage inequality has remained fairly constant over the 40-year study period, except in the UK where we document a significant increase." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019 (2023)

    Bauluz, Luis; Lee, Annie; Novokmet, Filip; Schularick, Moritz; Breau, Sébastien; López Forero, Margarita; Lee, Neil ; Fransham, Mark ; Malgouyres, Clément; Bukowski, Pawel; Verdugo, Gregory ;

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    Bauluz, Luis, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Lee, Margarita López Forero, Filip Novokmet, Sébastien Breau, Neil Lee, Clément Malgouyres, Moritz Schularick & Gregory Verdugo (2023): Spatial Wage Inequality in North America and Western Europe: Changes Between and Within Local Labour Markets 1975-2019. (CEPR discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 18381), London, 44 S.

    Abstract

    "The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that studies the relationship between national and subnational economic inequality. This paper presents the first systematic attempt to create internationally comparable evidence showing how different countries perform in terms of geographic wage inequalities. We create cross-country comparable measures of spatial wage disparities between and within similarly-defined local labour market areas (LLMAs) for Canada, France, (West) Germany, the UK and the US since the 1970s, and assess their contribution to national inequality. By the end of the 2010s, spatial inequalities in LLMA mean wages are similar in Canada, France, Germany and the UK; the US exhibits the highest degree of spatial inequality. Over the study period, spatial inequalities have nearly doubled in all countries, except for France where spatial inequalities have fallen back to 1970s levels. Due to a concomitant increase in within-place inequality, the contribution of places in explaining national wage inequality has remained fairly constant over the 40-year study period, except in the UK where we document a significant increase." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht (2023)

    Brändle, Tobias ; Koch, Andreas;

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    Brändle, Tobias & Andreas Koch (2023): Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 103, H. 12, S. 842-849. DOI:10.2478/wd-2023-0230

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    "Das Entgelttransparenzgesetz soll dazu beitragen, das Gebot des gleichen Entgelts für Frauen und Männer bei gleicher oder gleichwertiger Arbeit durchzusetzen. Nach der zweiten Evaluation wird deutlich, dass dies mit den vorhandenen Instrumenten des Gesetzes nicht erreicht wird. Ohne größere Änderungen bleibt das Gesetz in großen Teilen ineffektiv – bei gleichzeitig substanziellen bürokratischen Auflagen für Betriebe. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Ergebnisse der zweiten Evaluation und zeigt auf, in welche Richtung Reformen gehen könnten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run (2023)

    Collischon, Matthias ; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T.;

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    Collischon, Matthias, Kamila Cygan-Rehm & Regina T. Riphahn (2023): Subsidized small jobs and maternal labor market outcomes in the long run. (LASER discussion papers 148), Erlangen, S. 56.

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    "This paper investigates whether incentives generated by public policies contribute to motherhood penalties. Specifically, we study the consequences of subsidized small jobs, the German Minijobs, which are frequently taken up by first-time mothers upon labor market return. Using a combination of propensity score matching and an event study applied to administrative data, we compare the long-run child penalties of mothers who started out in a Minijob employment versus unsubsidized employment or non-employment after birth. We find persistent differences between the Minijobbers and otherwise employed mothers up to 10 years after the first birth, which suggests adverse unintended consequences of the small jobs subsidy program for maternal earnings and pensions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages (2023)

    Drechsel-Grau, Moritz;

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    Drechsel-Grau, Moritz (2023): Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages. (CESifo working paper 10412), München, 64 S.

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    "This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever the minimum wage cuts deep into the wage distribution. I show that gradually implementing a high minimum wage is necessary to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Artificial Intelligence, Tasks, Skills and Wages: Worker-Level Evidence from Germany (2023)

    Engberg, Erik; Schroeder, Sarah; Lodefalk, Magnus ; Koch, Michael;

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    Engberg, Erik, Michael Koch, Magnus Lodefalk & Sarah Schroeder (2023): Artificial Intelligence, Tasks, Skills and Wages: Worker-Level Evidence from Germany. (Ratio working paper 371), Stockholm, 55 S.

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    "This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations with high AI exposure, perform different activities and face different skill requirements, compared to workers in occupations ex- posed to robots. In a third step, the study uses individual labor market biographies to investigate the impact on wages between 2010 and 2017. Results indicate a wage growth premium in occupations more exposed to AI, contrasting with a wage growth discount in occupations exposed to robots. Finally, the study further explores the dynamic in- fluence of AI exposure on individual wages over time, uncovering positive associations with wages, with nuanced variations across occupational groups." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Impact of Technological Change on Immigration and Immigrants (2023)

    Giesing, Yvonne;

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    Giesing, Yvonne (2023): The Impact of Technological Change on Immigration and Immigrants. (CESifo working paper 10876), München, S.46.

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    "We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants versus natives. We analyze and compare the effects of two different automation technologies: Industrial robots and artificial intelligence. We exploit data provided by the Industrial Federation of Robotics as well as online job vacancy data on Germany, a highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the native population nor immigration flows. In the case of AI, we determine an increase in the wage gap as well as the unemployment gap of migrant and native populations. This applies to the low-, medium- and high-skilled and is indicative of migrants facing displacement effects, while natives might benefit from productivity and complementarity effects. In addition, AI leads to a significant inflow of immigrants. Policymakers should devote special attention to the migration population when designing mitigation policies in response to technological change to avoid further increases in inequality between migrants and natives." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Working Longer, Working Stronger? The Forward-Looking Effects of Increasing the Retirement Age on (Un)employment Behaviour (2023)

    Gohl, Niklas;

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    Gohl, Niklas (2023): Working Longer, Working Stronger? The Forward-Looking Effects of Increasing the Retirement Age on (Un)employment Behaviour. (CEPA discussion papers / Center for Economic Policy Analysis 63), Potsdam, 62 S.

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    "Leveraging two cohort-specific pension reforms, this paper estimates the forward-looking effects of an exogenous increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity approaches based on administrative and survey data, I show that a longer legal working horizon increases individuals' subjective expectations about the length of their work life, raises the probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with comparatively low physical intensity, i.e., occupations that can be performed at older ages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Gender-Atypical Learning Experiences of Men Reduce Occupational Sex Segregation: Evidence From the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany (2023)

    Hamjediers, Maik ;

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    Hamjediers, Maik (2023): Gender-Atypical Learning Experiences of Men Reduce Occupational Sex Segregation: Evidence From the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany. In: Gender & Society, Jg. 37, H. 4, S. 524-552. DOI:10.1177/08912432231177650

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    "Occupational sex segregation persists in part because men seldom enter female-dominated occupations. Whereas programs providing women with gender-atypical learning experiences aim to increase female representation in male-dominated domains, similar programs for men—despite their potential to counteract the prevailing lack of men in female-dominated occupations—are rare. In this paper, I investigate whether men’s gender-atypical learning experiences affect their likelihood of entering female-dominated occupations by studying the effect of participation in Germany’s civilian service. The civilian service offered a social-sector alternative to compulsory military service, and its suspension in 2011 induced exogenous variation in men’s gender-atypical learning experiences. Combining register data from Germany’s social security system with data from the German Microcensus shows that men’s likelihood of entering the labor market in female-dominated occupations declined by about 21 percent when the civilian service was suspended. Scaling the estimate by participation in the civilian service indicates that having completed the civilian service increased men’s likelihood of entering female-dominated occupations by about 12 percentage points. This illustrates that programs exposing men to gender-atypical learning experiences can promote occupational integration and could “unstall” the gender revolution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Public child care and mothers' career trajectories (2023)

    Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske;

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    Huber, Katrin & Geske Rolvering (2023): Public child care and mothers' career trajectories. (CEPA discussion papers / Center for Economic Policy Analysis 64), Potsdam, 33 S.

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    "This paper studies the effect of public child care on mothers' career trajectories. To this end, we combine county-level data on child care coverage with detailed individual-level information from the German social security records and exploit a set of German reforms leading to a substantial temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. We conduct an event study approach that investigates the labor market outcomes of mothers in the years around the birth of their first child. We thereby explore career trajectories, both in terms of quantity and quality of employment. We find that public child care improves maternal labor supply in the years immediately following childbirth. However, the results on quality-related outcomes suggest that the effect of child care provision does not reach far beyond pure employment effects. These results do not change for mothers with different 'career costs of children'." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss (2023)

    Jarosch, Gregor;

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    Jarosch, Gregor (2023): Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss. In: Econometrica, Jg. 91, H. 3, S. 903-942. DOI:10.3982/ECTA14008

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    "Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of unemployment and labor market policy. I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor market in which jobs differ in terms of unemployment risk and workers search off- and on-the-job. This gives rise to a job ladder with slippery bottom rungs where unemployment spells beget unemployment spells. I allow for human capital to respond to time spent out of work and estimate the framework on German Social Security data. The model captures the joint response of wages, employment, and unemployment risk to job loss which I measure empirically. The key driver of the “unemployment scar” is the loss in job security and its interaction with the evolution of human capital and, in particular, the search for better employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies (2023)

    Jung, Philip ; Korfmann, Philipp ; Preugschat, Edgar ;

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    Jung, Philip, Philipp Korfmann & Edgar Preugschat (2023): Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 152. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2022.104318

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    "We document large and persistent spatial dispersion in unemployment rates, vacancies, labor market tightness, labor market flows, and wages for Germany on a granular regional level. We find that both differences in inflows into and in outflows from unemployment are important for accounting for the regional dispersion in unemployment rates. Within a search- and matching model with risk-averse agents, moral hazard, endogenous separations and free mobility we show that an optimal policy response to labor market dispersion requires a place-based tax and unemployment insurance system together with place-based policies conditioning on labor market flows. We allow regions to differ along multiple dimensions and characterize the trade-offs between insurance, regional redistribution and efficiency quantitatively. We find that for Germany a move towards an optimal place-based tax system that explicitly conditions on regional characteristics could lead to sizeable welfare and employment gains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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    The Value of Early-Career Skills (2023)

    Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon;

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    Langer, Christina & Simon Wiederhold (2023): The Value of Early-Career Skills. (CESifo working paper 10288), München: CESifo, 66 S.

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    "We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of learning each skill. Following workers over their careers in administrative data, we find that cognitive, social, and digital skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly – yet differently – rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and social skills since the 1990s, with a more moderate increase in returns to cognitive skills." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A single risk approach to the semiparametric competing risks model with parametric Archimedean risk dependence (2023)

    Lo, Simon M.S.; Wilke, Ralf A. ;

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    Lo, Simon M.S. & Ralf A. Wilke (2023): A single risk approach to the semiparametric competing risks model with parametric Archimedean risk dependence. In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis online erschienen am 24.11.2023. DOI:10.1016/j.jmva.2023.105276

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    "This paper considers a dependent competing risks model with the distribution of one risk being a semiparametric proportional hazards model, whereas the model for the other risks and the degree of risk dependence of an Archimedean copula are unknown. Identifiability is shown when there is at least one covariate with at least two values. Estimation is done by means of a -consistent semiparametric two-step procedure. Applicability and attractive finite sample performance are demonstrated with the help of simulations. An application to unemployment duration confirms the importance of estimating rather than assuming risk dependence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    A single risk approach to the semiparametric competing risks model with parametric Archimedean risk dependence (2023)

    Lo, Simon M.S.; Wilke, Ralf A. ;

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    Lo, Simon M.S. & Ralf A. Wilke (2023): A single risk approach to the semiparametric competing risks model with parametric Archimedean risk dependence. In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis. DOI:10.1016/j.jmva.2023.105276

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    "This paper considers a dependent competing risks model with the distribution of one risk being a semiparametric proportional hazards model, whereas the model for the other risks and the degree of risk dependence of an Archimedean copula are unknown. Identifiability is shown when there is at least one covariate with at least two values. Estimation is done by means of a -consistent semiparametric two-step procedure. Applicability and attractive finite sample performance are demonstrated with the help of simulations. An application to unemployment duration confirms the importance of estimating rather than assuming risk dependence." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Retirement in Western Germany - How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing (2023)

    Mertens, Antje ; Romeu-Gordo, Laura;

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    Mertens, Antje & Laura Romeu-Gordo (2023): Retirement in Western Germany - How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 37, H. 2, S. 467-485. DOI:10.1177/09500170211011330

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    "In this article, task data from the German Qualification and Career Survey (BIBB/IAB) is matched against the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) to investigate what patterns are discernible in retirement between 1985 and 2005 in Western Germany. Set against a background of pension reforms and substantial structural change, the article asks whether the nature of occupational tasks has any significant effect on the timing of retirement. Through the use of event history analysis, the article reveals that having a large percentage of routine manual tasks in one’s job is associated with a greater likelihood of a job holder leaving employment, while having medium to high percentages of non-routine manual tasks in one’s job will tend to decrease that likelihood. There is also evidence that holding a job that includes a medium to high concentration of analytical and interactive tasks will tend to reduce the likelihood of early retirement." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Occupational Reallocation Within and Across Firms: Implications for labor-market polarization (2023)

    Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Tanaka, Satoshi; Takayama, Naoki;

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    Mukoyama, Toshihiko, Naoki Takayama & Satoshi Tanaka (2023): Occupational Reallocation Within and Across Firms: Implications for labor-market polarization. (RIETI discussion paper 23051), Tokyo, 54 S.

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    "This study analyzes how labor-market frictions interact with firms' decisions to reallocate workers across different occupations during labor-market polarization. We compare the patterns of occupational reallocation within and across firms in the United States and Germany in recent years. We find that within-firm reallocation contributes significantly to the decline in employment in routine occupations in Germany, but much less in the United States. We construct a general equilibrium model of firm dynamics and find that the model with different firing taxes can replicate the difference in firm-level adjustment patterns across these countries. We conduct two counterfactual experiments, highlighting the different roles played by the within-firm cost of reorganizing occupational mix and across-firm frictions created by firing taxes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance (2023)

    Schulz, Bastian ; Siuda, Fabian ;

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    Schulz, Bastian & Fabian Siuda (2023): Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance. In: Journal of Population Economics, Jg. 36, H. 4, S. 2277-2308. DOI:10.1007/s00148-023-00961-1

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    "This paper examines how changes in household-level risk sharing affect the marriage market. We use as our laboratory a German unemployment insurance (UI) reform that tightened means-testing based on the partner’s income. The reduced generosity of UI increased the demand for household-level risk sharing, which lowered the attractiveness of individuals exposed to unemployment risk. Because unemployment risk correlates with non-German nationality, our main finding is that the UI reform led to a decrease in intermarriage. The 2004 expansion of the European Union had a comparable effect on intermarriage for the affected nationalities. Both reforms increased marital stability, which is consistent with better selection by couples." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Wechseln von Digitalisierung betroffene Beschäftigte häufiger den Betrieb oder in Arbeitslosigkeit? (2023)

    Seele, Stefanie; Stettes, Oliver;

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    Seele, Stefanie & Oliver Stettes (2023): Wechseln von Digitalisierung betroffene Beschäftigte häufiger den Betrieb oder in Arbeitslosigkeit? In: IW-Trends, Jg. 50, H. 4, S. 3-21. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.23-04-01

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    "Die Sorge, ein steigender Technologieeinsatz im Berufsalltag könnte zu Arbeitsplatzverlusten führen, scheint bislang unbegründet. Eine Analyse von Mobilitätsprozessen sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigter in einer repräsentativen 2-Prozent-Stichprobe von Prozessdaten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (SIAB) verdeutlicht für die Jahre 2012 bis 2021, dass stark von Digitalisierungstechnologien betroffene Berufssegmente eine deutlich höhere Beschäftigungsstabilität und messbar seltenere Arbeitslosigkeitszugänge zeigten. Dies gilt gleichermaßen für Beschäftigte in potenziell besonders leicht durch neue Technologien substituierbaren Berufen als auch für Beschäftigte in Digitalisierungsberufen mit besonders vielen komplementären Tätigkeiten und Kompetenzen zu den neuen Technologien. Vier von fünf Personen, die 2012 sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigt waren, blieben in den neun Folgejahren beim selben Arbeitgeber. Den Betrieb wechselten knapp 10 Prozent in einem Beruf mit hohem Substituierbarkeitspotenzial und fast 9 Prozent in einem ausgeprägten Digitalisierungsberuf. Gleichzeitig wurden Personen beider Berufssegmente seltener arbeitslos als ihre Vergleichsgruppen. Betriebsspezifisches Kapital könnte hierfür ursächlich sein. Beschäftigte mit hohem Substituierbarkeitspotenzial des Berufs könnten von Betriebsbeteiligungen an Investitionen in betriebsspezifisches Humankapital profitieren. Beschäftigte mit ausgeprägten Digitalisierungsberufen könnten durch betriebsspezifisches Organisationskapital gebunden sein." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    A tale of two data sets: comparing German administrative and survey data using wage inequality as an example (2023)

    Stüber, Heiko ; Grabka, Markus M. ; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. ;

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    Stüber, Heiko, Markus M. Grabka & Daniel D. Schnitzlein (2023): A tale of two data sets: comparing German administrative and survey data using wage inequality as an example. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 57, S. 1-18., 2023-02-21. DOI:10.1186/s12651-023-00336-9

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    "The IAB’s Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey data set in which respondents self-report their wages. Both data sources have their specific advantages and disadvantages. The objective of this study is to describe and compare the evolution of wage inequality for these two types of data. For this purpose, different sample restrictions are applied. The comparison without any harmonization of the data shows different levels and trends. When the information is largely harmonized, comparable trends and similar levels emerge." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Model-Based Prediction and Estimation Using Incomplete Survey Data (2023)

    Wölwer, Anna-Lena;

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    Wölwer, Anna-Lena (2023): Model-Based Prediction and Estimation Using Incomplete Survey Data. XIX, 223 S. DOI:10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-25a6-5f2c

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    "Survey Daten können unter verschiedensten Blickwinkeln als unvollständig bzw. als partiell fehlend angesehen werden und es gibt verschiedene Möglichkeiten, mit diesen Daten in der Prädiktion und Schätzung interessierender volkswirtschaftlicher Größen umzugehen. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei ausgewählte Forschungskontexte vorgestellt, in denen die Prädiktion bzw. Schätzung unter unvollständigen Survey Daten untersucht wird. Diese Kontexte sind zum einen die Untersuchung zusammengesetzter Schätzer im deutschen Mikrozensus (Kapitel 3 und 4) und zum anderen Erweiterungen multivariater Fay-Herriot (MFH) Modelle (Kapitel 5 und 6), die bei Small Area Problemen Anwendung finden. Zusammengesetzte Schätzer sind Schätzmethoden, die die Stichprobenüberlappung in rotierenden Panel Surveys wie dem deutschen Mikrozensus zur Stabilisierung der Schätzung interessierender Größen (z.B. Erwerbsstatistiken) nutzen. Durch die partiellen Stichprobenüberlappungen in rotierenden Panel Surveys liegen immer nur für einen Teil der Befragten Informationen aus vorangegangenen Erhebungen vor. Die resultierenden Daten sind damit partiell fehlend. MFH Modelle sind modellbasierte Schätzmethoden, die mit aggregierten Survey Daten arbeiten, um im Vergleich zu klassischen Schätzmethoden präzisere Schätzergebnisse für Small Area Probleme zu erhalten. In den Modellen werden mehrere interessierende Größen gleichzeitig modelliert. Die Survey-Schätzwerte dieser Größen, die in MFH Modelle als Input eingehen, sind häufig partiell fehlend. Wenn die interessierenden Domains nicht explizit im Stichprobendesign berücksichtigt wurden, kann es sein, dass die Größe der Stichprobe, die auf sie entfällt, so klein ist, dass entweder gar keine Schätzwerte berechnet werden können oder aber die Schätzwerte von statistischen Ämtern nicht veröffentlicht werden, da ihre Varianzen zu groß ist. Nach einem Überblick zu theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der Survey Statistik in Kapitel 2 stellt Kapitel 3 die Generierung eines Längsschnittdatensatz vor, auf Basis dessen in Kapitel 4 designbasierte Simulationsstudien zum Einsatz von zusammengesetzten Schätzern im Mikrozensus durchgeführt werden. Für diese Studien wird ein Längsschnittdatensatz mit monatlichen Erwerbsinformationen benötigt, der die deutsche Wohnbevölkerung abbildet. Auf Grundlage des SIAB Datensatzes werden Prädiktionsmodelle für monatliche Erwerbsübergänge geschätzt, mit denen monatliche Erwerbsinformationen im RIFOSS Datensatz, einem halb-synthetischen Querschnittdatensatz der deutschen Wohnbevölkerung, generiert werden. Für die Prädiktionsmodelle werden mehrere generalisierte additive Modelle, die jeweils auf Substichproben der aufbereiteten SIAB Daten geschätzt werden (Subagging), zu optimal gewichteten Ensemble Modellen (Stacking) verbunden. In der Optimierung der Ensemble Gewichte wird eine in diesem Kapitel vorgestellte Erweiterung des Brier Scores verwendet. In Kapitel 4 wird der Einsatz von zusammengesetzten Schätzern für Erwerbsstatistiken im deutschen Mikrozensus untersucht. Das Design des deutschen Mikrozensus wurde 2020 wesentlichen Änderungen unterzogen, welche neue Möglichkeiten für den Einsatz dieser Schätzmethoden schaffen. In dem Kapitel wird analysiert, welche Einsatzmöglichkeiten sich für zusammengesetzte Schätzer aus dem neuen Mikrozensus Design ergeben. Beispielsweise bieten sich verschiedene Stichprobenüberlappungen zu vorangegangenen Zeitpunkten für die Nutzung in den zusammengesetzten Schätzern an. Zusätzlich werden Anpassungen der Formeln der zusammengesetzten Schätzer für die sich aus dem Mikrozensus Design ergebenden regional heterogenen Stichprobenüberlappungen vorgestellt. In einer designbasierten Simulationsstudie, deren Basis der in Kapitel 3 erstellte Datensatz ist, wird die Performanz der angepassten Methoden unter verschiedenen Sets an Stichprobenüberlappungen für verschiedene Erwerbsstatistiken verglichen. Im Fokus von Kapitel 5 und 6 stehen unvollständige aggregierte Survey-Schätzwerte, die zur Small Area Schätzung in MFH Modellen verwendet werden. Mit den Beiträgen der beiden Kapitel ist es möglich, die unter den jeweiligen Modellen sogenannten besten Prädiktoren multivariater Domain-Indikatoren zu berechnen, auch wenn die in die Modelle eingehenden Survey-Schätzwerte partiell fehlen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Job Ladder, Human Capital, and the Cost of Job Loss (2022)

    Audoly, Richard; Pace, Federica De; Fella, Giulio;

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    Audoly, Richard, Federica De Pace & Giulio Fella (2022): Job Ladder, Human Capital, and the Cost of Job Loss. (Staff reports / Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1043), New York, NY, 48 S.

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    "High-tenure workers losing their job experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this paper is to understand and quantify the forces behind this empirical regularity. We propose a structural model of the labor market with (i) on-the-job search, (ii) general human capital, and (iii) firm-specific human capital. Jobs are destroyed at an endogenous rate due to idiosyncratic productivity shocks and the skills of workers depreciate during periods of non-employment. The model is estimated on German Social Security data. By jointly matching moments related to workers’ mobility and wages, the model can replicate the size and persistence of the losses in earnings and wages observed in the data. We find that the loss of a job with a more productive employer is the primary driver of the cumulative wage losses following displacement (about 50 percent), followed by the loss of firm-specific human capital (about 30 percent)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labor Market Polarization, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power (2022)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Frings, Hanna ; Demir, Gökay;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Gökay Demir & Hanna Frings (2022): Labor Market Polarization, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 57, H. S, S. 11-49. DOI:10.3368/jhr.monopsony.0219-10011R1

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    "Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers performing mostly non-routine cognitive tasks are exposed to a higher degree of monopsony power than workers performing routine or non-routine manual tasks. Job-specific human capital and non-pecuniary job characteristics are the most likely explanations for this result. We find no evidence that labor market polarization has increased monopsony power over time." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))

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    Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit: Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage von BA-Daten und der Verdienststrukturerhebung: Studie für die iGZ-Bundesgeschäftsstelle. Endbericht 04. Mai 2022 (2022)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Rulff, Christian ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Fernanda Martínez Flores & Christian Rulff (2022): Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit: Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage von BA-Daten und der Verdienststrukturerhebung. Studie für die iGZ-Bundesgeschäftsstelle. Endbericht 04. Mai 2022. (RWI-Projektbericht), Essen, 64 S.

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    "Der Bericht ist wie folgt aufgebaut. In Kapitel 2 wird detailliert dargestellt, wie sich die offiziellen Statistiken der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sowie des Statistischen Bundesamtes hinsichtlich der Höhe der Lohnlücke unterscheiden und wie sich diese Unterschiede erklären lassen. In Kapitel 3 werden eigene deskriptive Ergebnisse basierend auf den Mikrodaten der IEB und der VSE vorgestellt. Hier wird zunächst darauf eingegangen, inwieweit sich Zeitarbeiter/-innen hinsichtlich ihrer beobachtbaren Charakteristika von nicht Zeitarbeiter/-innen unterscheiden. Anschließend werden die Lohnunterschiede basierend auf einer vergleichbaren Stichprobe dargestellt. Hierbei liegt der Fokus auf einem Vergleich der Lohnlücke über verschiedene beobachtbare Charakteristika. Kapitel 4 verwendet Regressionsanalysen und Dekompositionsmethoden, um für Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der jeweiligen Stichprobe zu kontrollieren. Zudem werden mithilfe eines Matching-Verfahrens "statistische Zwillinge" gebildet, um die Gruppe der in Zeitarbeit Beschäftigten so vergleichbar wie möglich mit den Beschäftigten außerhalb der Zeitarbeit zu machen. Kapitel 5 enthält die Ergebnisse für die Stundenlöhne auf der Grundlage der VSE-Daten. Kapitel 6 gibt Empfehlungen, wie die Lohnlücke der Zeitarbeiter/-innen in Zukunft sinnvoller berechnet und dargestellt werden kann, um diese über verschiedene Datensätze vergleichbar zu machen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit - Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage der Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien und der Verdienststrukturerhebung (2022)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Martínez-Flores, Fernanda; Rulff, Christian ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Fernanda Martínez-Flores & Christian Rulff (2022): Die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit - Eine empirische Analyse auf Grundlage der Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien und der Verdienststrukturerhebung. (RWI-Materialien 153), Essen, 42 S.

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    "Die Lohnlücke zwischen Personen, die innerhalb und außerhalb der Zeitarbeit beschäftigt sind, wird in Deutschland auf Grundlage verschiedener Datensätze berechnet, was teilweise zu sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen führt. Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Lohnlücke in der Zeitarbeit daher anhand zweier Datensätze, den Integrierten Erwerbsbiografien (IEB) des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und der Verdienststrukturerhebung (VSE) des Statistischen Bundesamtes. Hierzu werden zunächst die Statistiken, die auf Basis dieser zwei Datenquellen veröffentlicht werden, miteinander verglichen, und es wird auf mögliche Ursachen für Unterschiede in der Lohnlücke eingegangen. Im Hauptteil der Analyse wird die Lohnlücke auf Basis der Mikrodatensätze mithilfe verschiedener ökonometrischer Verfahren analysiert. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass beim Vergleich von öffentlichen Statistiken auf eine Vergleichbarkeit der zugrundeliegenden Stichprobe geachtet werden sollte. Die Lohnlücke bei den Monatslöhnen ist bei Verwendung von IEB-Daten etwas größer als bei VSE-Daten, was auf Unterschiede in der Zusammensetzung der Stichprobe zurückzuführen ist. Die ökonometrische Analyse der Monatslöhne ergibt für beide Datensätze, dass die bereinigte Lohnlücke deutlich geringer ausfällt als die unbereinigte Lohnlücke. Eine zusätzliche Analyse der Stundenlöhne auf Grundlage der VSE zeigt, dass die bereinigte Lohnlücke nahe null liegt. Dies deutet darauf hin, dass die Arbeitszeit eine wichtige Rolle für die Lohnlücke spielt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development (2022)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Uhlendorff, Arne; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Gökay Demir, Colin Green & Arne Uhlendorff (2022): The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development. (Ruhr economic papers 975), Essen, 41 S. DOI:10.4419/96973140

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    "Wir untersuchen, wie Veränderungen der Aufgabeninhalte im Laufe der Zeit die berufliche Lohnentwicklung beeinflussen. Anhand von Umfragedaten aus Deutschland dokumentieren wir eine erhebliche Heterogenität bei der Veränderung von Aufgabeninhalten innerhalb eines Berufes. Kombiniert man diese Erkenntnisse mit administrativen Daten zu individuellen Beschäftigungsergebnissen über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren, so stellt man fest, dass es eine erhebliche Heterogenität in Bezug auf Lohneinbußen bei ursprünglich routineintensiven Tätigkeiten gibt. Während Berufe, die (relativ) routineintensiv bleiben, erhebliche Lohneinbußen mit sich bringen, bleiben die Löhne in Berufen mit abnehmender Routineintensität stabil oder steigen sogar. Diese Ergebnisse lassen sich nicht durch Kompositions- oder Kohorteneffekte erklärt werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Der Bauarbeitsmarkt: Soziologie und Ökonomie einer Branche (2022)

    Bosch, Gerhard; Weinkopf, Claudia; Hüttenhoff, Frederic; Kalina, Thorsten; Kümmerling, Angelika;

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    Bosch, Gerhard & Frederic Hüttenhoff (2022): Der Bauarbeitsmarkt. Soziologie und Ökonomie einer Branche. Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verl., 346 S. DOI:10.12907/978-3-593-45011-7

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    "In der deutschen Bauwirtschaft haben die Sozialpartner in der Nachkriegszeit mit ihren Sozialkassen ein vorbildliches System der Finanzierung der Berufsausbildung und der sozialen Sicherung aufgebaut. Zusätzlich wurde mit dem Saisonkurzarbeitergeld ein arbeitsmarktpolitisches Instrument zur Beschäftigungssicherung entwickelt. Dieses Buch untersucht die Entwicklungen der Bauwirtschaft und ihrer besonderen Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf den Versuchen der Sozialpartner und der Politik, die Erosion der bauspezifischen Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen durch Reformen zu verhindern, um auch in Zukunft den Fachkräftebedarf der Branche zu sichern." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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    The Curious Incidence of Monetary Policy Across the Income Distribution (2022)

    Broer, Tobias; Kramer, John; Mitman, Kurt;

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    Broer, Tobias, John Kramer & Kurt Mitman (2022): The Curious Incidence of Monetary Policy Across the Income Distribution. (Sveriges Riksbank working paper series 416), Stockholm, 36 S.

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    "We use high-frequency administrative data from Germany to study the effects of monetary policy on income and employment across the earnings distribution. Earnings growth at the bottom of the distribution is substantially more elastic to policy shocks. This unequal incidence is driven by differences in the response of employment risk across the distribution: job loss is more countercyclical for lower-earnings households. Viewed through the lens of a standard incomplete-markets model, the heterogeneous incidence substantially amplifies the equilibrium response of aggregate consumption to shocks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers' Hiring Standards (2022)

    Butschek, Sebastian;

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    Butschek, Sebastian (2022): Raising the Bar: Minimum Wages and Employers' Hiring Standards. In: American Economic Journal. Economic Policy, Jg. 14, H. 2, S. 91-124. DOI:10.1257/pol.20190534

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    "Many scholars have studied the employment effects of minimum wages, but little is known about effects on the composition of hires. I investigate whether Germany's minimum wage introduction raised hiring standards, using worker fixed effects as a proxy for worker productivity. For the least productive workers hired, the minimum wage led to a 4 percentile point shift in the productivity distribution. This increase is missed using standard observable measures of worker productivity. The effects are larger with greater pre-reform screening intensity—indicating an employer response. This more selective hiring compensates about two-thirds of higher wage costs for the least productive hires." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010 (2022)

    Bächmann, Ann-Christin ; Gatermann, Dörthe; Kleinert, Corinna ; Leuze, Kathrin ;

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    Bächmann, Ann-Christin, Dörthe Gatermann, Corinna Kleinert & Kathrin Leuze (2022): Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010. In: Social science research, Jg. 104, 2021-12-13. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102685

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    "This paper analyzes the reciprocal relationship between occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany over time. Based on a unique occupational panel dataset covering 254 occupations between 1976 and 2010, we apply static, dynamic, and Arellano-Bond panel models to account for reverse causality and endogeneity. Results indicate that trends in occupational part-time rates and gender ratios mutually reinforce each other but not in the same manner. Part-time work in occupations increases once more women start working in these occupations. Occupational part-time ratios are mainly driven by married women and mothers; women's education level only plays a minor role. Vice versa, the gender composition of occupations is likewise affected by changing working-time arrangements, at least in the short run, but it is mainly driven by previous levels of occupational gender segregation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Higher Minimum Wages (2022)

    Drechsel-Grau, Moritz;

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    Drechsel-Grau, Moritz (2022): Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Higher Minimum Wages. (Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2022: Big Data in Economics), Kiel, 60 S.

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    "While many countries are discussing substantial increases in the minimum wage, policy makers lack a comprehensive analysis of the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of raising the minimum wage. This paper investigates how employment, output and worker welfare respond to increases in the minimum wage beyond observable levels – both in the short- and long run. To that end, I incorporate endogenous job search effort, differences in employment levels, and a progressive tax-transfer system into a search-matching model with worker and firm heterogeneity. I estimate my model using German administrative and survey data. The model replicates the muted employment response, as well as the reallocation effects in terms of productivity and employment levels documented by reduced form research on the German introduction of a federal minimum wage in 2015. Simulating the model, I find that long-run employment increases slightly until the minimum wage is equal to 60% of the full-time median wage (Kaitz index) as higher search effort offsets lower vacancy posting. In addition, raising the minimum wage reallocates workers towards fulltime jobs and high-productivity firms. Total hours worked and output peak at Kaitz indices of 73% and 79%. However, policy makers face an important inter-temporal trade-off as large minimum wage hikes lead to substantial job destruction, unemployment and recessions in the short-run. Finally, I show that raising the minimum wage largely benefits men. For women, who often rely on low-hours jobs, the disutility from working longer hours outweighs the utility of higher incomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Essays on Consequences of a Negative Economic Shock on Migration and Expectations: Evidence from the reunification of East and West Germany (2022)

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    Emmler, Julian & Bernd Fitzenberger (2022): Essays on Consequences of a Negative Economic Shock on Migration and Expectations. Evidence from the reunification of East and West Germany. Berlin, 163 S. DOI:10.18452/24403

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    "Diese Dissertation analysiert die Effekte der deutschen Wiedervereinigung auf Erwartungen über die Arbeitsplatzsicherheit von ostdeutschen Arbeitnehmer/innen nach der Wiedervereinigung, auf Ihre Entscheidung in den Westen zu migrieren und diskutiert zudem den Arbeitsmarkterfolg der ostdeutschen Arbeitnehmer/innen die migrierten. Im ersten Kapitel zeige ich, dass kurz nach der Wiedervereinigung der Anteil der ostdeutschen Arbeitnehmer/innen die erwarteten ihren Arbeitsplatz zu verlieren, substanziell höher war als der Anteil derjenigen, die ihn tatsächlich verloren. Der Anteil der erwarteten Arbeitsplatzverluste fiel im Anschluss aber substantiell. Dies wurde durch eine Verbesserung der wirtschaftlichen Situation in Ostdeutschland beeinflusst und durch eine veränderte Interpretation von ökonomischen Signalen durch die Arbeitnehmer/innen. Das zweite Kapitel enthält kausale Schätzungen von Migrationsgewinnen von ostdeutschen Arbeitnehmer/innen die nach der Wiedervereinigung nach Westdeutschland migriert sind. Diese Migranten erlebten oftmals einen substantiellen Rückgang in ihren Arbeitseinnahmen in den Monaten vor Migration, verursacht durch steigende Arbeitslosigkeit. Unter Verwendung von Inverse Probability Weighting und zweier Kontrollgruppen zeige ich, dass Erwartungen über die persönliche Arbeitsmarktentwicklung in der Herkunftsregion eine wichtige Rolle für die erwarteten Migrationsgewinne spielen. Im dritten Kapitel dokumentiere ich, dass sich die Mehrheit der ostdeutschen Arbeitnehmer welche zwischen 1994 - 2008 nach Westdeutschland migrierten, nach der Migration am untersten Ende der Verteilung der Verdienste in Westdeutschland eingeordnet haben. Dies kann unter anderem dadurch erklärt werden, dass Migranten oft in Industrien arbeiteten, die ein niedriges Lohnniveau in Westdeutschland aufwiesen, durch eine Entwertung des Humankapitals durch den Strukturwandel in Ostdeutschland und durch geringe Erträge für existierendes Humankapital." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Changing selection into full-time work and its effect on wage inequality in Germany (2022)

    Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Lazzer, Jakob de;

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    Fitzenberger, Bernd & Jakob de Lazzer (2022): Changing selection into full-time work and its effect on wage inequality in Germany. In: Empirical economics, Jg. 62, H. 1, S. 247-277., 2021-06-17. DOI:10.1007/s00181-021-02098-0

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    "To explore whether changes in the selection into full-time work among German men were a driver in the rise in wage inequality since the mid-1990s, we propose a modification of selection-corrected quantile regressions. Addressing Huber and Melly’s (J Appl Econom 30(7):1144–1168, 2015) concerns, this modification allows us to estimate the effects of selection with respect to both observables and unobservables. Our findings show that those employed in 1995 would have had lower wages in 2010 than those employed in 2010 and wage dispersion would have been higher, suggesting that full-time workers have become less heterogeneous over time." (Author's abstract, © 2021 Springer Nature) ((en))

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    The role of labor demand in the labor market effects of a pension reform (2022)

    Geyer, Johannes ; Zwick, Thomas ; Bruns, Mona; Lorenz, Svenja; Haan, Peter;

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    Geyer, Johannes, Peter Haan, Svenja Lorenz, Thomas Zwick & Mona Bruns (2022): The role of labor demand in the labor market effects of a pension reform. In: Industrial Relations, Jg. 61, H. 2, S. 152-192. DOI:10.1111/irel.12293

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    "This paper shows that labor demand plays an important role in the labor market reactions to a pension reform in Germany. Employers with a high share of older worker inflow compared with their younger worker inflow, employers in sectors with few investments in research and development, and employers in sectors with a high share of collective bargaining agreements allow their employees to stay employed longer after the reform. These employers offer their older employees partial retirement instead of forcing them into unemployment before early retirement because the older employees incur low substitution costs and high dismissal costs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand (2022)

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    Gudgeon, Matthew & Simon Trenkle (2022): The Speed of Earnings Responses to Taxation and the Role of Firm Labor Demand. In: Journal of labor economics online erschienen am 01.12.2022, S. 1-39. DOI:10.1086/723831

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    "This paper studies the speed at which workers’ pre-tax earnings respond to tax changes along the intensive margin. We do so in the context of Germany, where a large notch in the tax schedule induces sharp bunching in the earnings distribution. We analyze earnings responses to two policy reforms that shift this notch outward and find clear evidence that frictions delay the earnings responses of over 38% of workers. We propose that heterogeneity in firm labor demand plays a key role in generating the observed differences in the speed of workers’ earnings responses and provide supporting evidence." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    Der Beitrag der EU-Zuwanderung zur Entwicklung des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts im vergangenen Jahrzehnt (2022)

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    Hammer, Luisa & Matthias Sebastian Hertweck (2022): Der Beitrag der EU-Zuwanderung zur Entwicklung des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts im vergangenen Jahrzehnt. (Research Brief / Deutsche Bundesbank 45 (de)), Frankfurt am Main, 4 S.

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    "Im Vergleich zu früheren Arbeiten zum Zuwanderungsgeschehen in Deutschland während der 1990er-Jahre (zum Beispiel D’Amuri et al., 2010) fallen in der vorliegenden Studie insbesondere die Beschäftigungseffekte der EU-Zuwanderung im vergangenen Jahrzehnt deutlich positiver aus. Dieser Befund ist vermutlich auf das Zusammenspiel zweier Faktoren zurückzuführen: Zum einen ist der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich flexibler geworden. Die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in den neu entstandenen Wirtschaftszweigen wie der Zeitarbeit werden zwar niedrig entlohnt, bieten Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderern aber niedrigschwellige Möglichkeiten, erste Erfahrungen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt zu erwerben. Zum anderen förderte die EU-Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit diejenige arbeitsmarktorientierte Zuwanderung, die passgenau auf die Erfordernisse des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts ausgerichtet war. Somit schlossen EU-Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer die Lücken, die durch ansässige Arbeitskräfte nur schlecht gefüllt werden konnten. Eine Verdrängung von ansässigen Arbeitskräften fand daher nicht statt. Vielmehr hat der Zuzug von Arbeitskräften aus der EU möglicherweise dazu beigetragen, dass Ansässige leichter neu geschaffene Stellen fanden, die sich in Unternehmen gut mit den relativ niedrig bezahlten Arbeitsplätzen der EU-Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer ergänzten." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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    The impact of EU immigration on labour market outcomes in Germany over the past decade (2022)

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    Hammer, Luisa & Matthias Sebastian Hertweck (2022): The impact of EU immigration on labour market outcomes in Germany over the past decade. (Research Brief / Deutsche Bundesbank 45 (en)), Frankfurt am Main, 4 S.

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    "Im Vergleich zu früheren Arbeiten zum Zuwanderungsgeschehen in Deutschland während der 1990er-Jahre (zum Beispiel D’Amuri et al., 2010) fallen in der vorliegenden Studie insbesondere die Beschäftigungseffekte der EU-Zuwanderung im vergangenen Jahrzehnt deutlich positiver aus. Dieser Befund ist vermutlich auf das Zusammenspiel zweier Faktoren zurückzuführen: Zum einen ist der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich flexibler geworden. Die Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in den neu entstandenen Wirtschaftszweigen wie der Zeitarbeit werden zwar niedrig entlohnt, bieten Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderern aber niedrigschwellige Möglichkeiten, erste Erfahrungen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt zu erwerben. Zum anderen förderte die EU-Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit diejenige arbeitsmarktorientierte Zuwanderung, die passgenau auf die Erfordernisse des deutschen Arbeitsmarkts ausgerichtet war. Somit schlossen EU-Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer die Lücken, die durch ansässige Arbeitskräfte nur schlecht gefüllt werden konnten. Eine Verdrängung von ansässigen Arbeitskräften fand daher nicht statt. Vielmehr hat der Zuzug von Arbeitskräften aus der EU möglicherweise dazu beigetragen, dass Ansässige leichter neu geschaffene Stellen fanden, die sich in Unternehmen gut mit den relativ niedrig bezahlten Arbeitsplätzen der EU-Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer ergänzten." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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    EU enlargement and (temporary) migration: Effects on labour market outcomes in Germany (2022)

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    Hammer, Luisa & Matthias S. Hertweck (2022): EU enlargement and (temporary) migration: Effects on labour market outcomes in Germany. (Discussion paper / Deutsche Bundesbank 2022,02), Frankfurt am Main, 57 S.

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    "EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immigration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrants stay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EU immigrants into “new arrivals” and “stayers” drawing on administrative social security data (2005-2017). This novel strategy allows us to separately identify their potentially opposing short- and medium-run effects on labour market outcomes in Germany. We find a transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom of the wage distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics (2022)

    Hartung, Benjamin; Kuhn, Moritz; Jung, Philip ;

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    Hartung, Benjamin, Philip Jung & Moritz Kuhn (2022): Unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics. Bonn, 83 S.

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    "A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We provide new answers to this old question by studying one of the largest unemployment insurance reforms in recent decades, the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates into unemployment account for 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job-finding rates. Exploiting institutional changes by age, employment duration, and wages, we establish a causal link between the reform and changes in labor market dynamics. Relying on labor market theory, we generalize our empirical findings beyond the German case and establish separation rate changes as an important macroeconomic adjustment channel after UI reforms. We derive analytically that the change of separation rates increases in proportion to average unemployment duration suggesting an equally important role for most other European labor markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Untold Story of Midijobs (2022)

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    Herget, Anne & Regina T. Riphahn (2022): The Untold Story of Midijobs. In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jg. 242, H. 3, S. 309-341. DOI:10.1515/jbnst-2021-0025

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    "Midijobs are employment relationships with moderate monthly earnings that benefit from payroll tax subsidies. Since 2003, the subsidy is universally available for all regions, industries, individuals, and employers in Germany. Recently, more than 2.9 million individuals, i.e., almost 9 percent of the German labor force covered by the social security system took advantage of Midijobs. This paper describes the program, its motivation, and utilization over time. We characterize the labor market transitions leading into and out of Midijob employment, the duration of Midijob utilization, and compare recent developments with patterns of program utilization that were observed early on." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter) ((en))

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    Beschäftigungsperspektiven für gering Qualifizierte (2022)

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    Kalina, Thorsten (2022): Beschäftigungsperspektiven für gering Qualifizierte. (IAQ-Report 2022-08), Duisburg ; Essen, 18 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/74324

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    "Nachdem die Beschäftigung gering Qualifizierter lange rückläufig war, hat sie in den letzten Jahren leicht zugenommen. Gut 12 % der Beschäftigung entfiel auf den Bereich Lagerwirtschaft, Post- und Zustellungsberufe. In diesem Berufsbereich war das Beschäftigungswachstum für gering Qualifizierte zwischen 2012 und 2019 mit 28 % auch am stärksten. Rund 60 % der gering Qualifizierten waren 2019 als Fachkräfte tätig. Hierbei handelt es sich um einen Graubereich an Tätigkeiten, die anspruchsvoller sind als reine Helfertätigkeiten, aber nicht unbedingt eine dreijährige Berufsausbildung voraussetzen. Politischer Handlungsbedarf besteht bei der Abgrenzung von Helfer- und Fachkrafttätigkeiten, was sich auch in der Entlohnung widerspiegeln muss. Zudem sind das Nachholen von Ausbildungsabschlüssen und die Zertifizierung von Teilqualifikationen wichtige Ansatzpunkte, um die Arbeitsmarktlage von gering Qualifizierten weiter zu verbessern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis (2022)

    Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi ;

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    Koomen, Miriam & Uschi Backes-Gellner (2022): Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 15702), Bonn, 66 S.

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    "We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality since the 1990s, both at the top and the bottom of the wage distribution. Specifically, abstract tasks drive the upper wage gap, while interactive and routine tasks drive the lower wage gap. Importantly, we find low-wage occupations to have the highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both stronger and different than prior research has found." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis (2022)

    Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi ;

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    Koomen, Miriam & Uschi Backes-Gellner (2022): Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 79. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102284

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    "We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allow us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality since the 1990s, both at the top and the bottom of the wage distribution. Specifically, abstract tasks drive the upper wage gap, while interactive and routine tasks drive the lower wage gap. Importantly, we find low-wage occupations to have the highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both stronger and different than prior research has found." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Beware of the employer: Financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old-age employment (2022)

    Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas ; Bruns, Mona;

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    Lorenz, Svenja, Thomas Zwick & Mona Bruns (2022): Beware of the employer: Financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old-age employment. In: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Jg. 21. DOI:10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100363

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    "We show that a stepwise increase in the normal retirement age (NRA) by up to five years and the introduction of actuarial pension deductions for retirement before NRA was ineffective in prolonging employment of older men after early retirement age. We argue that the ineffectiveness of the German pension reform resulted from a change in employer behavior that was mainly induced by a recession during the implementation period of the pension reform. Employers seem to have nudged their employees to use a bridge option that was introduced with the pension reform (partial retirement) or a traditional bridge option (unemployment). These bridge options allowed an early retirement age (ERA) of 60 instead of the only alternative early retirement option with an ERA of 63. Bridge options therefore offered employers an opportunity to terminate employment considerably earlier and exert more influence over the employment exit age. We argue that without a change in employer behavior, neither using one of the bridge options nor the earlier employment exit would have been utility maximizing for the individuals affected by the reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories (2022)

    Mahajan, Parag; Stüber, Heiko ; Patki, Dhiren;

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    Mahajan, Parag, Dhiren Patki & Heiko Stüber (2022): Bad Times, Bad Jobs? How Recessions Affect Early Career Trajectories. (Working paper / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Research Department 22-12), Boston, 21 S. DOI:10.29412/res.wp.2022.12

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    "Studies find that if a worker enters the labor market during an economic downturn versus a period of expansion, they likely will have more difficulty finding a high-paying job, because the availability of such jobs is strongly procyclical. The earnings penalty for starting a career during bad times is both substantial and persistent. Indeed, this paper finds that a typical recession causes entrants to experience a 6 percent loss in earnings cumulated over the first 15 years of their careers. But, the authors ask, to what extent do non-pecuniary characteristics of jobs offset some of those earnings losses? They address this question by relying on population-scale linked employer-employee administrative data from Germany to estimate both the pecuniary and non-pecuniary impact of entering the workforce during a recession." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen und Männern (2022)

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    Oberfichtner, Michael (2022): Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen und Männern. In: Ifo-Schnelldienst, Jg. 75, H. 10, S. 5-8.

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    "Die Arbeitsmarktergebnisse von Frauen und Männern unterscheiden sich immer noch massiv. Die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen ist niedriger als die von Männern, beschäftigte Frauen arbeiten im Durchschnitt weniger Stunden als Männer, der mittlere Stundenlohn lag 2018 bei Frauen 20% unter dem von Männern; und auch wenn man berücksichtigt, dass sich die Qualifikationen und Tätigkeiten zwischen Frauen und Männer unterscheiden, bleibt ein Lohnunterschied von 6% unerklärt (Statistisches Bundesamt 2022; 2022b; 2022c). Daher lohnt es sich, die Erwerbsverläufe von Frauen und Männern genauer in den Blick zu nehmen. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, dass die Geschlechterlohnunterschiede beim Eintritt in den Arbeitsmarkt in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten deutlich abgenommen haben. Über das Erwerbsleben nehmen die Unterschiede jedoch auch bei jüngeren Kohorten stark zu, wobei Familiengründungen eine entscheidende Rolle spielen. Um die Ursachen dafür besser zu verstehen, nimmt die aktuelle Forschung zunehmend auch eine betriebliche Perspektive ein." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Endbericht zur Studie „Arbeitsplatzsituation in der Akut- und Langzeitpflege und Ermittlung sowie modellhafte Implementierung von Indikatoren für gute Arbeitsbedingungen in der Langzeitpflege“ - Los 1: Analyse, Befragungen und Maßnahmenempfehlungen zum Pflegearbeitsplatz der Zukunft (2022)

    Peters, Verena; Stohr, Daniel; Bastian, Nina; Schröder, Jan; Zimmermann, Sandra; Herten, Benjamin; Meyer-Frieß, Kathrin; Schulte-Coerne, Nora; Laukhuf, Andrea; Wellmer, Amber; Müller, Laura; Müller, Nils; Runschke, Benedikt; Kirstein, Katharina; Reinhards, Thomas; Spies, Sabrina; Stehle, Esther; Werding, Martin ; Seidel, Jonas; Klärner, Kai-David; Beule, Patrick; Ott, Notburga;

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    Peters, Verena, Benjamin Herten, Katharina Kirstein, Nora Schulte-Coerne, Jonas Seidel, Amber Wellmer, Esther Stehle, Nils Müller, Patrick Beule, Andrea Laukhuf, Laura Müller, Benedikt Runschke, Sabrina Spies, Daniel Stohr, Sandra Zimmermann, Jan Schröder, Nina Bastian, Kathrin Meyer-Frieß, Thomas Reinhards, Notburga Ott, Kai-David Klärner & Martin Werding (2022): Endbericht zur Studie „Arbeitsplatzsituation in der Akut- und Langzeitpflege und Ermittlung sowie modellhafte Implementierung von Indikatoren für gute Arbeitsbedingungen in der Langzeitpflege“ - Los 1: Analyse, Befragungen und Maßnahmenempfehlungen zum Pflegearbeitsplatz der Zukunft. Bochum, 739 S.

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    "Im Rahmen der Konzertierten Aktion Pflege (KAP) wurde gemeinsam mit den in der Pflege beteiligten Akteuren im Juni 2019 Maßnahmen vereinbart, um mehr beruflich Pflegende zu gewinnen, sie zu stärken und zu entlasten und die Ausbildung und Arbeitsbedingungen attraktiver zu gestalten. Im Zuge dessen hat das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit die Studie Arbeitsplatzsituation in der Akut- und Langzeitpflege und Ermittlung sowie modellhafte Implementierung von Indikatoren für gute Arbeitsbedingungen in der Langzeitpflege beauftragt. Ziel der Studie war es, die Datengrundlagen zur Situation von beruflich Pflegenden zu verbessern und Maßnahmen zu identifizieren, die die Maßnahmen der KAP entweder bestätigen oder über diese hinausgehen bzw. mit denen die formulierten Ziele der Aktion vorangetrieben werden können. Los 1 der Studie umfasste dabei eine Analyse, Befragungen und Maßnahmenempfehlungen zum Pflegearbeitsplatz der Zukunft. Die Untersuchung beinhaltete eine umfassende systematische Analyse der bereits vorhandenen Literatur, eine Auswertung statistischer Daten sowie die Erhebung von Primärdaten in Form von qualitativen Interviews und einer quantitativen Erhebung unter beruflich Pflegenden in Deutschland. Die bereinigte, nicht repräsentative Stichprobe umfasst dabei Angaben von 5.514 Befragten, und sie ist damit eine der umfangreichsten Befragungen der letzten 10 Jahre bezogen auf Inhalte und Stichprobengröße. Sie bietet in besonderer thematischer Breite und Tiefe Einblicke in die Erfahrungen und Einschätzungen beruflich Pflegender in Deutschland. Die Ergebnisse dieser knapp dreijährigen Forschung sind in diesem Bericht zusammengefasst." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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    30 Years of East-West Migration in Germany: A Synthesis of the Literature and Potential Directions for Future Research (2022)

    Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias; Sander, Nikola ; Stawarz, Nico;

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    Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, Matthias, Nico Stawarz & Nikola Sander (2022): 30 Years of East-West Migration in Germany. A Synthesis of the Literature and Potential Directions for Future Research. In: Comparative Political Studies, Jg. 47, S. 185-210. DOI:10.12765/CPoS-2022-08

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    "The reunification of the socialist German Democratic Republic and the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany presents a unique setting for studying the impact of socio-economic and political change on migration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary literature on migration between East and West Germany since reunification, conducted in disciplines such as economics, demography, sociology, and human geography. We synthesise the literature with regard to data-related challenges as well as individual and contextual determinants of migration. We clarify some misinterpretations and discrepancies in previous studies, identify research gaps, and suggest directions for future research. Our review demonstrates that East-West migration mainly occurred in line with what could have been expected based on migration theory with regard to migrants’ sex, age, education, labour market position, and social networks. West-East migration, in contrast, was strongly affected by return migrants who often stated non-occupational motives for moving. On the contextual level, differences in wages are better able to explain East-West migration over time than differences in unemployment rates. West-East migration, however, cannot be explained well with such macroeconomic models. This paper contributes a point of reference for future research on this topic, as well as on internal migration and socio-economic disparities in general." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Mind the gap: Effects of the national minimum wage on the gender wage gap in Germany (2022)

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    Schmid, Ramona (2022): Mind the gap: Effects of the national minimum wage on the gender wage gap in Germany. (Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences 06-2022), Stuttgart, 37 S.

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    "With its introduction in 2015, the statutory minimum wage in Germany intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half of the wage distribution. Using administrative data, distinct regional differences regarding magnitudes of wage differentials and responses to the minimum wage are identified. Overall, wage gaps between men and women at the 10th percentile decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points respectively in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual wage distributions, the study provides new evidence that around 60% and even 95% of the decline result from the introduction of the minimum wage in each region. Further, group-specific analyses identify concrete responses on the basis of age, educational level and occupational activity. Having yearly data, the study ad- ditionally reveals new results on the impact of the successive minimum wage raises in 2017 and 2019. Counterfactual aggregate decompositions of gender wage gaps finally indicate a decrease in discriminatory remuneration structures in the West of Germany due to the introduced wage floor." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data (2022)

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    Storm, Eduard (2022): Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data. In: Labour, Jg. 36, H. 2, S. 167-195. DOI:10.1111/labr.12220

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    "This study documents that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. I find idiosyncratic differences account for up to 34 per cent of the wage gap. Importantly, natives specialize in high-paying interactive activities not only between, but also within occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. This enhanced degree of task specialization accounts for 11 per cent of the gap among high-wage earners and 25 per cent among low-wage earner, thus offering new insight into sources for imperfect substitution of native and foreign workers and consequently small migration-induced wage effects." (Author's abstract, © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) ((en))

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    Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform (2022)

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    Tazhitdinova, Alissa (2022): Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform. In: American Economic Journal. Economic Policy, Jg. 14, H. 1, S. 473-500. DOI:10.1257/pol.20190786

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    "Moonlighting is increasingly popular in OECD countries, with 5 to 10 percent of workers holding two or more jobs. However, little is known about the responsiveness of moonlighting to financial incentives due to the lack of identifying variation. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the marginal tax rate by between 19.5 to 66 pp. I show that the reform resulted in a dramatic increase in moonlighting that was not offset by reductions in primary earnings and that hours constraints are a key determinant of moonlighting." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Policies: A Novel Instrumental Variables Approach (2022)

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    Unterhofer, Ulrike & Conny Wunsch (2022): Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Policies. A Novel Instrumental Variables Approach. (arXiv papers), 81 S.

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    "This study evaluates the macroeconomic effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) in Germany over the period 2005 to 2018. We propose a novel identification strategy to overcome the simultaneity of ALMP and labour market outcomes at the regional level. It exploits the imperfect overlap of local labour markets and local employment agencies that decide on the local implementation of policies. Specifically, we instrument for the use of ALMP in a local labour market with the mix of ALMP implemented outside this market but in local employment agencies that partially overlap with this market. We find no effects of short-term activation measures and further vocational training on aggregate labour market outcomes. In contrast, wage subsidies substantially increase the share of workers in unsubsidised employment while lowering long-term unemployment and welfare dependency. Our results suggest that negative externalities of ALMP partially offset the effects for program participants and that some segments of the labour market benefit more than others." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs: Evidence from a German pension reform (2022)

    Zwick, Thomas ; Lorenz, Svenja; Geyer, Johannes ; Bruns, Mona;

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    Zwick, Thomas, Mona Bruns, Johannes Geyer & Svenja Lorenz (2022): Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs: Evidence from a German pension reform. In: The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Jg. 22. DOI:10.1016/j.jeoa.2022.100387

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    "Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at-risk group comprises older employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of early retirement options. To measure differences in labor market reactions of employees in low- and high-demand jobs, we exploit the quasinatural experiment of a cohort-specific pension reform that increased the early retirement age for women from 60 to 63 years. Based on a large administrative dataset, we use a regression-discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for treated women who were exposed to low and to high job demand. For older women in demanding jobs, we also do not find substitution effects into unemployment, partial retirement, disability pension, or inactivity. Eligibility for the abolished early retirement option required high labor market attachment. Thus, we argue that this eligibility rule induced a positive selection of healthy workers into early retirement. We propose alternative policies that protect workers exposed to high job demand better against the negative consequences of being unable to reach their statutory retirement age in employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elsevier) ((en))

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    Structural change revisited: The rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector (2021)

    Boddin, Dominik; Kroeger, Thilo;

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    Boddin, Dominik & Thilo Kroeger (2021): Structural change revisited: The rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector. (Discussion paper / Deutsche Bundesbank 2021,38), Frankfurt am Main, 55 S.

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    "This paper reconsiders the labor market consequences of structural change over the past 43 years. Taking two different ways of defining manufacturing and service employment as point of departure - according to the industry classification of firms or establishments and according to the occupation and hence the tasks of the workers - we show that structural change is far less pronounced than generally perceived. Manufacturing and service employment numbers based on the occupations of workers deviate markedly from the employment numbers based on the industry classification of employers. The decline in manufacturing jobs in Germany is far lower if the measurement of employment is based on the occupation of the worker. About 52% of manufacturing jobs that were lost in manufacturing industries between 1975 and 2017 are offset by new manufacturing jobs in service industries. This also has important implications for empirical applications. By way of example, we reestimate the effect of international trade on manufacturing employment based on the occupation of the worker. Contrary to previously identified negative effects, we cannot identify significant effects of import exposure on employment in manufacturing occupations. Using detailed, comprehensive German social security data, we show at the worker level that the service sector increasingly acts as a valuable alternative employment option for workers with manufacturing occupations. We estimate the causal effects of a switch to the service sector on employment outcomes by following workers over time after mass layoffs. The results reinforce our claim that structural change is less pronounced than perceived, as workers who retain their initial occupation and switch to employment in the service sector experience no significant differences in future employment trajectories compared to workers who manage to stay in the manufacturing sector." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets (2021)

    Böhm, Michael J. ; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; Siegel, Christian ;

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    Böhm, Michael J., Terry Gregory, Pamela Qendrai & Christian Siegel (2021): Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets. In: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Jg. 37, H. 1, S. 113-131. DOI:10.1093/oxrep/graa063

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    "Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial variation across regions. In this paper we first use this spatial variation between 1975 and 2014 to estimate quasi-causal supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020). We find in our panel of German labour market regions that workforce mean age has considerable negative effects on the wage returns to age. We also obtain suggestive evidence that relative employment rates of older workers decline when mean age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is mainly driven by supply (reflecting local population dynamics) whereas urban ageing is driven by demand (reflecting responses to economic conditions). We discuss the differential implications of these drivers for regional policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis (2021)

    Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos ; Robin, Jean-Marc ; Launov, Andrey;

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    Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos, Andrey Launov & Jean-Marc Robin (2021): The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 132. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103658

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    "In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation among prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers. However, labour force participation actually increased because many female non-participants accepted low-paid, part-time jobs. Counterfactual simulations using estimated transition probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment after 2002 essentially resulted from changes in their outflows. These changes are also the main determinants of the dynamics of the stocks of marginal, contributing part-time and full-time employment after 2002. Yet the full decrease in registered male unemployment cannot be explained by the reforms alone." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants (2021)

    Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tanya;

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    Dustmann, Christian, Hyejin Ku & Tanya Surovtseva (2021): Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants. (CReAM discussion paper 2021,10), London, 59 S.

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    "Higher price levels in the destination relative to the origin increase the effective real wages of immigrants, thereby affecting immigrants' reservation and entry wages as well as their subsequent career trajectories. Based on micro-level longitudinal administrative data from Germany and exploiting within-country and across-cohort variations in the real exchange rate (RER) between Germany and countries that newly joined the European Union in the 2000s, we find that immigrants arriving with high RERs initially settle for lower paying jobs than comparable immigrants arriving with low RERs. In subsequent periods, however, wages of high RER arrivals catch up to that of their low RER counterparts, convergence achieved primarily through changes to better paying occupations and firms. Our findings thus point to the persistent regional price differences as one possible reason for Immigrants' downgrading, with implications for immigrant' career profiles and the assessment of labor market impacts of immigration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Same educational level, same wage returns? An analysis over time and across occupations in Germany (2021)

    Friedrich, Anett ; Hirtz, Sandra ;

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    Friedrich, Anett & Sandra Hirtz (2021): Same educational level, same wage returns? An analysis over time and across occupations in Germany. In: Journal of education and work, Jg. 34, H. 5-6, S. 632-648. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2021.1965967

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    "Analysing wage differentials due to educational investments within occupations can explain the persistent wage inequality in western industrialised countries, such as Germany. This article contributes to the discussion by examining occupation-specific variance in wage returns for men working full-time in Western Germany between 1976 and 2010. We distinguish between three groups: employees with a vocational education and training (VET) degree with an Abitur (a certificate allowing entrance into a German university), with a VET degree but no Abitur, or with a university degree. First, we theoretically argue why wage returns vary within educational levels across occupations. Second, on the assumption that wage return variance will be greater at higher educational levels, we investigate wage return variance patterns for VET and university graduates over time. Estimating a two-stage multilevel model using the Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB), we show that holding an Abitur increases wage return variance across occupations. Moreover, we find a significantly higher occupation-specific variance in wage returns to education for university graduates than for VET graduates. For the period under examination, we reveal a fluctuating variance in wage returns for VET graduates and a slightly decreasing variance for university graduates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform (2021)

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    Galassi, Gabriela (2021): Labor Demand Response to Labor Supply Incentives: Lessons from the German Mini-Job Reform. (Staff working paper / Bank of Canada 2021,15), Ottawa, 92 S.

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    "This paper analyzes how firms respond to changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers and how, through equilibrium effects, such policies also affect non-targeted, high-earning workers. I explore establishment-level outcomes around Germany's 2003 Mini-Job Reform, which entailed a significant expansion of tax benefits for low-earning workers. Firms' responses are decomposed in terms of the scale effects that arise from lower labor costs and the substitution effects that are due to changes in the relative prices of low- and high-earning employment post-reform. Using a differences-in-differences approach, I document that highly exposed establishments—those with a high proportion of low-earning workers pre-reform—expand their number of employees relative to non-exposed establishments–those with a low proportion of such workers. Importantly, this relative expansion is tilted towards high-earning workers, a group that is not the target of the tax benefits. In addition, non-exposed establishments substitute employment towards low-earning workers without expanding at the same pace. My findings are consistent with a model of the labor market that features tax sharing between workers and firms and simultaneous shifts in labor supply and demand after changes in tax benefits for low-earning workers. In this setting I illustrate that the employment growth the policy intended is accompanied by a reallocation of employment and production between highly exposed firms and non-exposed firms, and this may result in an efficiency loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Relationships that Last: Job Creation vs Job Duration (2021)

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    Gehrke, Britta & Jacob Wong (2021): Relationships that Last: Job Creation vs Job Duration. (School of Economics working papers / The University of Adelaide, School of Economics 2021-01), Adelaide, 27 S.

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    "This paper documents observations about the duration of jobs created by establishments at various points along an establishment age curve. Using an employer-employee matched dataset from Germany, we observe a checkmark-shaped relationship between expected job duration and establishment age at the time of job creation. A simple frictional labour market model with two-sided heterogeneity featuring on-the-job search, a simple learning mechanism about worker ability and a life cycle productivity profile for firms is built to frame a discussion around the empirical finding. The model's mechanical job-ladder is shown to be able to produce such stylized correlations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany (2021)

    Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel;

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    Glitz, Albrecht & Daniel Wissmann (2021): Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 72. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102034

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    "In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium-to-low skill premium since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among workers aged 30 or below. Using a nested CES production function framework which allows for imperfect substitutability between young and old workers, we show that changes in relative labor supplies can explain these patterns very well. A cohort-level analysis reveals that distinct secular changes in the educational attainment of the native population are the primary source of the declining relative supply of medium-skilled workers in Germany. Low-skilled immigration, in contrast, only plays a secondary role in explaining the rising lower-end wage inequality in Germany over recent decades." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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    The Causal Effect of Exposure to Female-Dominated Work on Men's Occupational Choices: Evidence from the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany (2021)

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    Hamjediers, Maik (2021): The Causal Effect of Exposure to Female-Dominated Work on Men's Occupational Choices. Evidence from the Suspension of the Civilian Service in Germany. (SocArXiv papers), 30, 8 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/apvky

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    "Occupational segregation is one of the primary mechanisms for gender inequalities in labor market outcomes and persists partly because men rarely enter female-dominated occupations. Social Cognitive Career Theory explains occupational segregation via a lack of learning experiences in gender-atypical tasks and several programs have been proposed to foster occupational integration by exposing individuals to gender-atypical learning experiences. However, research on men working in female-dominated occupations revealed positive as well as negative experiences made within them. As most studies do not account for potential self-selection into gender-atypical occupations, it is an open question whether and how exposure to female-dominated occupations affects men's occupational choices. In response, I exploit exogenous variation induced by the suspension of Germany’s civilian service in 2011. The civilian service was a social sector alternative to a compulsory military service. I describe selection into the civilian service based on cross-section data (AID:A 2009) to assess to whom a potential effect would apply. A difference-in-difference design leverages German social security insurance register data (SIAB) to compare birth cohorts of men before and after the suspension and employs women who were not eligible for compulsory services as a control group. The suspension of the civilian service decreased the likelihood of men to enter female-dominated occupations by two percentage points. This result indicates that programs exposing men to gender-atypical learning experiences can facilitate occupational integration." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labour Market Miracle, Productivity Debacle: Measuring the Effects of Skill-Biased and Skill-Neutral Technical Change (2021)

    Hutter, Christian ; Weber, Enzo ;

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    Hutter, Christian & Enzo Weber (2021): Labour Market Miracle, Productivity Debacle: Measuring the Effects of Skill-Biased and Skill-Neutral Technical Change. In: Economic Modelling, Jg. 102, 2021-06-22. DOI:10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105584

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    "This paper examines the role of skill-biased and skill-neutral technical change for productivity and employment. Thereby, we explore the puzzling macro development in Germany, witnessing job miracle and productivity debacle in parallel. In the literature, skill-biased technical change (SBTC) is known as an important driving factor for labour markets. We measure SBTC using comprehensive micro data and construct a structural macroeconometric framework identified by long-run restrictions. The results show that weaker SBTC explains 69 percent of the productivity slowdown since the early 2000s. Skill-biased technology shocks have a negative and skill-neutral technology shocks a positive hours effect. Twenty-five percent of the hours upswing since 2005 can be explained by reduced pressure from SBTC. Moreover, we analyse routine-biased technical change (RBTC) and find productivity and hours effects comparable to SBTC. However, only the latter can explain the job miracle – productivity debacle puzzle, since RBTC does not flatten substantially in the 2000s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss (2021)

    Jarosch, Gregor;

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    Jarosch, Gregor (2021): Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss. (NBER working paper 28481), Cambridge, MA, 56 S. DOI:10.3386/w28481

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    "Job loss comes with large present value earnings losses which elude workhorse models of unemployment and labor market policy. I propose a parsimonious model of a frictional labor market in which jobs differ in terms of unemployment risk and workers search off- and on-the-job. This gives rise to a job ladder with slippery bottom rungs where unemployment spells beget unemployment spells. I allow for human capital to respond to time spent out of work and estimate the framework on German Social Security data. The model captures the joint response of wages, employment, and unemployment risk to job loss which I measure empirically. The key driver of the “unemployment scar” is the loss in job security and its interaction with the evolution of human capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies (2021)

    Jung, Philip ; Preugschat, Edgar ; Korfmann, Philipp ;

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    Jung, Philip, Philipp Korfmann & Edgar Preugschat (2021): Optimal Regional Labor Market Policies. (IZA discussion paper 14204), Bonn, 75 S.

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    "We document large and persistent spatial dispersion in unemployment rates, vacancies, labor market tightness, labor market flows, and wages for Germany on a granular regional level. We show that in the 1990s differences in inflows from employment to unemployment were the key driver of regional dispersion in unemployment rates while in the 2000s outflows became more important. To account for the documented regional dispersion we develop a spatial search and matching model with risk-averse agents, endogenous separations and unobservable search effort that leads to moral hazard and quantify the relative importance of 4 potential structural driving forces: dispersion in productivity, in the bargaining strength of workers, in idiosyncratic risk components and in regional matching efficiency. Based on region-specific estimates of these factors we then study the resulting policy trade-off between insurance, regional redistribution and efficiency. We design (optimal) region-specific labor market policies that can be implemented using hiring subsidies, layoff taxes, unemployment insurance benefits and transfers financed by social insurance contributions. We find that a move towards an optimal tax system that explicitly conditions on regional characteristics could lead to sizable welfare and employment gains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study (2021)

    Kern, Christoph ; Bach, Ruben L. ; Mautner, Hannah; Kreuter, Frauke ;

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    Kern, Christoph, Ruben L. Bach, Hannah Mautner & Frauke Kreuter (2021): Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study. (arXiv papers), 2021-08-04. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2108.04134

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    "Algorithmic profiling is increasingly used in the public sector as a means to allocate limited public resources effectively and objectively. One example is the prediction-based statistical profiling of job seekers to guide the allocation of support measures by public employment services. However, empirical evaluations of potential side-effects such as unintended discrimination and fairness concerns are rare. In this study, we compare and evaluate statistical models for predicting job seekers' risk of becoming long-term unemployed with respect to prediction performance, fairness metrics, and vulnerabilities to data analysis decisions. Focusing on Germany as a use case, we evaluate profiling models under realistic conditions by utilizing administrative data on job seekers' employment histories that are routinely collected by German public employment services. Besides showing that these data can be used to predict long-term unemployment with competitive levels of accuracy, we highlight that different classification policies have very different fairness implications. We therefore call for rigorous auditing processes before such models are put to practice." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Technologische Innovationen und Wandel der Arbeitswelt in Deutschland: Herausforderungen für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie die Re-Qualifizierung im Zuge des digitalen Wandels (2021)

    Kirchmann, Andrea; Laub, Natalie; Maier, Anastasia; Boockmann, Bernhard; Zühlke, Anne ;

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    Kirchmann, Andrea, Natalie Laub, Anastasia Maier, Anne Zühlke & Bernhard Boockmann (2021): Technologische Innovationen und Wandel der Arbeitswelt in Deutschland. Herausforderungen für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie die Re-Qualifizierung im Zuge des digitalen Wandels. (Studien zum deutschen Innovationssystem 2021-10), Berlin, 128 S.

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    "Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen des digitale Wandels für die berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung sowie für die Hochschullehre. Dafür wurden eine breit angelegte Literaturanalyse sowie die Auswertung verschiedener Indikatoren vorgenommen. Den Kern der Studie bilden Interviews mit Expertinnen und Experten. Die Gespräche ergeben, dass alle Ausbildungsberufe von der Digitalisierung betroffen sind. Dennoch behält die duale berufliche Ausbildung auch im Zuge des digitalen Wandels einen hohen Stellenwert für die Wirtschaft. Vor allem in der Qualifikation des betrieblichen Ausbildungspersonals und der Lehrkräfte besteht noch erheblicher Handlungsbedarf, ebenso wie beim Umgang der Lehrenden an Hochschulen und in der Weiterbildung mit digitalen Lehr-Lern-Formaten. Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen stehen aufgrund von fehlender technologischer Ausstattung häufig vor besonderen Herausforderungen. Aus diesen Erkenntnissen werden verschiedene Handlungsempfehlungen abgeleitet. Beispielsweise wird bereichsübergreifend die Förderung der didaktischen Weiterbildung im Umgang mit digitalen Lehr-Lernformaten empfohlen. Die Befähigung zu lebenslangem Lernen, die Bereitstellung funktionierender technischer Ausstattung und einer leistungsfähigen Infrastruktur stellen weitere Handlungsempfehlungen dar." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Machine Learning in Labor Economics: Clustering, Prediction, and Variable Selection in the Analysis of Female Employment (2021)

    Klose, Sophie-Charlotte; Paul, Marie ; Lederer, Johannes;

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    Klose, Sophie-Charlotte, Marie Paul & Johannes Lederer (2021): Machine Learning in Labor Economics: Clustering, Prediction, and Variable Selection in the Analysis of Female Employment. Duisburg, 174 S.

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    "In three separate chapters, this dissertation (develops and) demonstrates the effective use of various ML tools to tackle different empirical purposes in the analysis of female employment. Chapter 2 deals with data-driven classification in the analysis of maternal employment. The chapter focuses on detecting latent group structures in the effect of motherhood on employment and examines how the introduction of a generous parental benefit reform impacts the different cluster groups. Chapter 3 turns to the prediction aspect of ML in labor economics and analyzes in a data-driven way how far childbirth can be predicted from a rich set of predictor variables derived from female employment and wage histories. Chapter 4 introduces ML tools for controlled variable selection to economists. More specifically the chapter extends a recently proposed approach for datadriven variable selection in high-dimensional linear models to the non-linear case and exemplifies its usefulness with an application towards the labor market. All three chapters share in common the sparsity principle (e.g., Hastie et al. [2015]), which assumes that the DGP can be modeled accurately by a small number of predictors, even though the actual number of variables at hand is large. Sparsity can be motivated on economic grounds in situations where a researcher believes that the underlying DGP is parsimonious but is unsure about the identity of the relevant variables. In empirical research, it allows the effective use of a large set of covariates while at the same time maintaining the spirit of parsimonious modeling in economics.
    Cumulative Dissertation Containing Three Essays: (1) Identifying Latent Structures in Maternal Employment: Evidence on the German Parental Benefit Reform (2) Predicting the Incidence of Having a First Child based on Employment Records { A Machine Learning Approach (joint work with Marie Paul) (3) A Pipeline for Variable Selection and False Discovery Rate Control With an Application in Labor Economics (joint work with Johannes Lederer)" (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Money also is sunny in a retiree’s world: financial incentives and work after retirement (2021)

    Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas ;

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    Lorenz, Svenja & Thomas Zwick (2021): Money also is sunny in a retiree’s world: financial incentives and work after retirement. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 55. DOI:10.1186/s12651-021-00304-1

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    "This paper assesses the impact of financial incentives on working after retirement. The empirical analysis is based on a large administrative individual career data set that includes information about 2% of all German employees subject to social security or in marginal employment until age 67 and their employers in the period 1975–2014. We use the classical labor supply model and differentiate between the impact of (potential) labor and non-labor (pension entitlements) income. A Heckman-type two step selection model corrects for endogeneity. We show that labor income has a positive and non-labor income a negative impact on the decision to work after retirement. Especially individuals who can substantially increase their earnings in comparison to their pension entitlements accordingly have a higher probability to work. Men are more attracted by labor earnings incentives than women. Also individuals who work until retirement are easier attracted to work after retirement by higher labor income than those with gaps between employment exit and retirement. Our results allow the calculation of the impact of changes in taxes on labor and non-labor income and changes in earnings offers by employers on work after retirement for different demographic groups." (Author's abstract, © 2021 Springer) ((en))

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    Apprenticeship non‑completion in Germany: a money matter? (2021)

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    Neuber-Pohl, Caroline (2021): Apprenticeship non‑completion in Germany: a money matter? In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, Jg. 13. DOI:10.1186/s40461-021-00115-1

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    "German establishments heavily rely on the apprenticeship system for skill supply. With one in four apprenticeship contracts ending before successful completion, it is in the interest of establishments and policy-makers to determine factors, which reduce non-completion. This paper investigates the role of apprenticeship wages and income prospects after completion for apprenticeship non-completion in Germany. For this purpose, this study identifies incidences of apprenticeship non-completion in a large sample of administrative data on employment biographies and estimates a piecewise exponential model of the non-completion hazard with shared frailties by occupations. The results suggest a robust and significant association with both apprenticeship wages and skilled worker wages. All else at means, apprenticeships which are paid 5% more than the mean apprenticeship wage, on average have a 0.8 percentage points higher estimated survival rate. In turn, an apprenticeship expected to lead to a skilled job that is paid 5% above average, has an estimated survival rate, which is 3.1 percentage points higher on average. These findings highlight the importance of income prospects for apprenticeship non-completion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The value of apprentices in the care sector: the effect of apprenticeship costs on the mobility of graduates from apprenticeship training (2021)

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    Schuss, Eric (2021): The value of apprentices in the care sector: the effect of apprenticeship costs on the mobility of graduates from apprenticeship training. In: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, Jg. 13. DOI:10.1186/s40461-021-00118-y

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    "This paper provides evidence on the effect of apprenticeship costs on the decision whether care facilities employ apprenticeship graduates after completing apprenticeship training. To account for the endogeneity in apprenticeship costs, we exploit an exogenous reduction in the apprenticeship costs of care facilities by exploiting the fact that the underlying apprenticeship levy was introduced across the German federal states at different points in time. We find that the redistribution of apprenticeship costs increases the probability of leaving the training facility after completing apprenticeship training by 10 percentage points. Furthermore, we use this quasi-experimental setting to estimate the effect of mobility of graduates on their wages, which hints at a negative relationship in the upper quartile of the wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The effect on economic development of creative class versus human capital: panel evidence from German regions (2021)

    Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn; Sacchetti, Silvia ; Tortia, Ermanno C. ;

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    Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn, Silvia Sacchetti & Ermanno C. Tortia (2021): The effect on economic development of creative class versus human capital: panel evidence from German regions. In: European Planning Studies, Jg. 29, H. 1, S. 75-93. DOI:10.1080/09654313.2020.1821611

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    "The creative class thesis considers the creative class, compared to human capital, as a better driver of regional economic development. We test this thesis for Germany. We measure creative class and human capital by occupation and education, respectively using classification codes from The Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB), and proxy regional economic development by per capita income and employment. Our panel estimation results with system GMM show that the human capital effect on per capita income is substantially stronger than the creative class, while the creative class drives employment far better than human capital does. The evidence does not support the notion that the creative class drives development better than human capital." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The impact of technological age: An empirical analysis of technological change induced human capital depreciation and its influence on wages and the likelihood to leave an occupation (2021)

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    Wirp, Marc Christoph (2021): The impact of technological age. An empirical analysis of technological change induced human capital depreciation and its influence on wages and the likelihood to leave an occupation. Mainz, 360 S. DOI:10.25358/openscience-6190

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    "This analysis establishes the novel concept of technological age as a measure of occupation specific technologically induced human capital depreciation. The hypothesis is that technological age makes workers less efficient in their adoption of new technologies and leads to lower wages or workers leaving their occupations. Therefore, the analysis estimates the impact of technological age on wages and on the probability that workers leave their occupations. To measure technological age, the analysis uses the “Employment Survey of the Working Population on Qualification and Working conditions in Germany” dataset to estimate technological change for 28 occupations in the timeframe 1979-2006. This occupation specific technological change is then used to estimate an individual technological age for 971,510 individuals in the dataset “Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies Description.” As hypothesized, technological age has a negative and significant impact on wages in most occupations during the sample period. Alas, when looking at sub-sample estimations, it becomes clear that technological age has a positive impact on wages in the timeframe from 1979-1999 and that technological age only has a negative impact on wages in the timeframe from 2000-2006. Furthermore, technological age makes workers more likely to leave their occupations in most occupations during the sample period. Yet again, when looking at sub sample periods, technological age makes workers more likely to leave their occupations during the years 1979-1999 and less likely during the years 2000-2006. Technological age surprisingly always has a more negative impact in less technologically intensive occupations. Workers in less technologically intensive occupations are affected more by the wage effect of technological age and workers in less technologically intensive occupations are more likely to leave their occupations due to technological age. This is true for the entire sample period as well as the sub sample timeframes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Essays on Regional Labour Mobility (2021)

    Zimmermann, Michael Walter; Trede, Mark ;

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    Zimmermann, Michael Walter & Mark Trede (2021): Essays on Regional Labour Mobility. Münster, 107 S.

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    Die kumulative Dissertation umfasst neben einer einordnenden und zusammenfassenden Einleitung drei Beiträge: (1) 'Regional Labour Migration - Stylized Facts for Germany' untersucht die regionale Arbeitskräftemobilität zwischen 1995 und 2017 unter den Ausprägungen Arbeitslosigkeitsrate, Preisniveau und Bevölkerungsdichte (für das Jahr 2016) und präsentiert ein weiterentwickeltes Gravitationsmodell zur Bestimmung der Determinanten von Binnenmigration. (2). 'Directed Search on the Job in Local Labour Markets' untersucht den Gegenstand aus der Mikroperspektive, basierend auf dem Wanderungsmodell von Sjaastad, nach dem sich die ökonomische Disparitäten durch Arbeitskräftewanderung verändern, wenn Arbeitnehmer den Nutzen ihrer Lebensarbeitszeit durch rationale Wahl des Wohnortes maximieren. (3) 'Labour Mobility - A Multiregional New Keynesian Model' stellt ein multiregionales Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE)-Modell vor, das die aus der Literatur bekannten Standardelemente enthält. Zur Ergänzung werden hier die Finanzmärkte mit Inflation, Preisfestsetzung und Lohnverhandlungen einbezogen. (IAB)

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    Lebenslagen in Deutschland: Der Sechste Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung: Kurzfassung (2021)

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    Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (2021): Lebenslagen in Deutschland: Der Sechste Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung. Kurzfassung. (Lebenslagen in Deutschland. Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung der Bundesregierung 6), 72 S.

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    "Die Ergebnisse des Berichts zeigen, dass der überwiegende Teil der Menschen in stabilen sozialen Lagen lebt: Deutschland ist keine "Abstiegsgesellschaft", weiterhin bestehen gute Aufstiegschancen aus der Mitte nach Oben. Problematisch ist die Verfestigung in den unteren sozialen Lagen, aus denen es im Zeitablauf immer weniger Personen gelungen ist, aufzusteigen. Hinsichtlich der Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie deuten die vorliegenden Befragungs- bzw. erste Forschungsergebnisse darauf hin, dass die Sozialschutzpakete bislang negative Verteilungseffekte weitgehend vermieden haben und durch die Regelungen des Kurzarbeitergeldes die Beschäftigung gesichert werden konnte. Langfristig gilt es aber, die Bereich Bildung und Betreuung besonders im Blick zu behalten, da sich hier in den Belastungen sozioökonomische Unterschiede gezeigt haben. Der Bericht dient dazu, die Lebenslagen der Bürgerinnen und Bürger zu analysieren, die Wirksamkeit der bisherigen Politikansätze zu überprüfen und neue Maßnahmen anzuregen. Die soziale Lage in Deutschland wird dafür ausführlich beschrieben. Zugrunde liegen die vorliegenden Statistiken und eigens für den Bericht in Auftrag gegebene Forschungsvorhaben. Die aktuellen Daten bewertet der Bericht mit Blick auf die Entwicklung der sozialen Aufstiegschancen und Abstiegsrisiken innerhalb der Biographie und – soweit möglich – auch im Vergleich zu früheren Alterskohorten und Generationen. Für diesen Sechsten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht wurden erstmals Einzelinformationen aus verschiedenen Dimensionen (Einkommen, Vermögen, Erwerbsintegration und Wohnungsausstattung) miteinander verknüpft, um soziale Lagen auch in der Gesamtschau zu bewerten und im Zeitablauf zu vergleichen. Die ebenfalls erstmals durchgeführte Untersuchung zur Verfügbarkeit und Inanspruchnahme der sozialen Infrastruktur und von Angeboten der Daseinsvorsorge nimmt ergänzend die Bedeutung nicht-monetärer Leistungen für soziale und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe in den Blick. Verstärkt wurde auch die Analyse, wie Verteilungsergebnisse und soziale Mobilität individuell erfahren und bewertet werden. In Ergänzung zu einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung, die differenzierte Auswertungen ermöglicht hat, wurden Personen aus benachteiligten sozialen Lagen zu ihren Biografien, ihrer Lebenssituation und ihren Zukunftsaussichten persönlich interviewt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Educational expansion and educational wage premiums of young male employees: A long-term analysis for West Germany 1976–2010 (2020)

    Alda, Holger; Friedrich, Anett ; Rohrbach-Schmidt, Daniela ;

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    Alda, Holger, Anett Friedrich & Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt (2020): Educational expansion and educational wage premiums of young male employees. A long-term analysis for West Germany 1976–2010. In: Social science research, Jg. 85. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102351

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    "For decades, Western societies have experienced educational expansion accompanied by an upgrading of skills. The literature provides competing hypotheses on the consequences for educational wage returns — among them are the positional value theory, routine-biased technological change, and the social closure theory. We test these theoretical perspectives empirically on young, male full-time workers in West Germany between 1976 and 2010 in two ideal-type occupational segments using 2.34 million administrative earnings records (Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies, SIAB). Our findings show no credential inflation across all levels of education. Instead, the picture in both segments — negative effects of educational expansion on the returns to medium- but not high-level skills — confirms the predictions of routine-biased technological change. Wage premiums for medium-skilled workers differ between segments: the premiums worsen over time in the general segment whereas social-closure mechanisms seem to weaken this negative trend for vocational graduates in the specific segment." (Author's Abstract, IAB-Doku)

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    Labor Market Polarization, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power (2020)

    Bachmann, Ronald ; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna ;

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    Bachmann, Ronald, Gökay Demir & Hanna Frings (2020): Labor Market Polarization, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power. (IZA discussion paper 13989), Bonn, 40 S.

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    "Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers performing mostly non-routine cognitive tasks are exposed to a higher degree of monopsony power than workers performing routine or non-routine manual tasks. Job-specific human capital and non-pecuniary job characteristics are the most likely explanations for this result. We find no evidence that labour market polarisation has increased monopsony power over time." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    History dependence in wages and cyclical selection: evidence from Germany (2020)

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    Bauer, Anja & Benjamin Lochner (2020): History dependence in wages and cyclical selection: evidence from Germany. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 67, 2020-10-10. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101932

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    "Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, we investigate the behavior of individual wages over the business cycle. We present evidence that both contractual wage arrangements and cyclical match quality are a key feature of the German labor market. We show that parts of the excess wage cyclicality of new hires discussed by the literature can be explained by cyclical job ladder movements in match quality of new hires from employment. Guided by the literature of job reassignments, we additionally allow for variation in the match quality within an employer-employee match. Besides support for job-specific contracts, our novel main results show that much of the excess wage cyclicality of job changers can be explained by occupation switching workers." (Author's abstract, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium (2020)

    Baumgarten, Daniel ; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael;

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    Baumgarten, Daniel, Michael Irlacher & Michael Koch (2020): Offshoring and non-monotonic employment effects across industries in general equilibrium. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 130. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103583

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    "We address the mismatch between existing theoretical models and standard empirical practice in the analysis of the labor market effects of offshoring. While theory focuses on one-sector or two-sector models, empirical studies exploit variation in offshoring across a large number of industries, typically including a linear offshoring term in the analysis. Thereby, these studies implicitly assume a monotonic relationship between offshoring and labor market outcomes and ignore general-equilibrium effects across industries. We analyze the effects of offshoring across a continuum of industries with different shares of offshorable tasks that are linked through labor and capital markets in general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE). Our main result is that offshoring generates a hump-shaped pattern of employment changes across industries. While the relocation effect reduces employment in offshoring-intensive industries, labor demand in industries with a high prevalence of domestic production falls because of rising domestic wages and firm exits in general equilibrium. In the empirical part, we test the non-monotonic employment effects across industries in response to an offshoring shock by focusing on Germany after the fall of the Iron Curtain. We find strong empirical support for the hump shape in the changes of employment across industries with different scopes for offshoring, which is almost entirely due to the extensive margin, underscoring the importance of establishment entry and exit. Finally, we discuss important implications for empirical and theoretical research arising from our study." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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    The Cost of Job Loss (2020)

    Burdett, Kenneth; Coles, Melvyn; Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos ;

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    Burdett, Kenneth, Carlos Carrillo-Tudela & Melvyn Coles (2020): The Cost of Job Loss. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 87, H. 4, S. 1757-1798. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdaa014

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    "This article identifies an equilibrium theory of wage formation and endogenous quit turnover in a labour market with on-the-job search, where risk averse workers accumulate human capital through learning-by-doing and lose skills while unemployed. Optimal contracting implies the wage paid increases with experience and tenure. Indirect inference using German data determines the deep parameters of the model. The estimated model not only reproduces the large and persistent fall in wages and earnings following job loss, a new structural decomposition finds foregone human capital accumulation (while unemployed) is the worker's major cost of job loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Struktureller und sozio-demographischer Wandel der Arbeitswelt und Änderung der beruflichen Mobilität in Deutschland 1980-2010 (2020)

    Bödeker, Wolfgang; Moebus, Susanne;

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    Bödeker, Wolfgang & Susanne Moebus (2020): Struktureller und sozio-demographischer Wandel der Arbeitswelt und Änderung der beruflichen Mobilität in Deutschland 1980-2010. Essen, 19 S.

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    "Der Wandel der Arbeitswelt und die Entwicklung der beruflichen Mobilität ist unter gesundheits- und präventionspolitischen Gesichtspunkten wegen einer möglichen Emergenz neuer Belastungsarten und der Einwanderung von Personen in belastungsintensive Berufe von Bedeutung. Bislang fehlt allerdings eine gemeinsame Analyse dieser Einflüsse. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, den demographischen und strukturellen Wandel der Arbeitswelt sowie die Änderung der beruflichen Mobilität anhand ausgewählter Indikatoren zu beschreiben. Wir fokussieren dabei auf sozio-demographische Kennzahlen und analysieren die Mobilität interbetrieblich (Wechsel der Arbeitgeber), interberuflich (Wechsel in andere Berufe), intersektoral (Wechsel in andere Branche) sowie interregional (Wechsel in ein anderes Bundesland). Datengrundlage ist die Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung. Bei dem sogenannten Regionalfile handelt sich um eine ca. 2 % Stichprobe aus der Grundgesamtheit der integrierten Erwerbsbiographien. Für den Zeitraum 1980 bis 2010 verdeutlichen die Auswertungen einen durchgreifenden sozio-demographischen und strukturellen Wandel der Arbeitswelt. Während sich in der Mehrzahl der Wirtschaftsgruppen eine Abnahme der Beschäftigung zeigt, gewinnen die ohnehin schon beschäftigungsstarken Branchen wie das Kredit- und Versicherungsgewerbe und die Erziehungs-, Sozial- und Gesundheitseinrichtungen weiter an Bedeutung. Es zeigt sich eine bedeutende Zunahme des Anteils der Frauen, der Teilzeittätigkeit, sowie eine Alterung und Qualifizierung in nahezu allen Wirtschaftsgruppen. Dabei erfasst der Wandel die Wirtschaftsgruppen und besonders die Berufe unterschiedlich stark. Gleichzeitig kann auch 2010 von typischen Frauenberufen mit Beschäftigungsanteilen von über 95 % gesprochen werden, etwa bei KindergärtnerInnen und SprechstundenhelferInnen. Die berufliche Mobilität hat im Hinblick auf alle betrachteten Mobilitätskennziffern zugenommen. Während sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigte im Jahr 1990 rechnerisch in 28 verschiedenen Betrieben arbeiteten (pro 100 Beschäftigungsjahre), waren es 2010 bereits 34. Die Änderungen fallen im Zeitraum 1990 bis 2000 größer aus als von 2000 zu 2010. Altersadjustiert bleibt eine kontinuierliche Zunahme der Betriebs-, Berufs und Branchenwechsel erhalten, während bei der räumlichen Mobilität über Bundesländer kein Trend beobachtet werden kann. Bei allen Kennziffern ist die berufliche Mobilität bei Jüngeren besonders ausgeprägt. Berufsspezifisch finden sich besonders auffällige Änderungen für Frauen mit Schweißer-, Post-, Verkehrs- und Industrieberufe; für Männer bei Kassierern und Friseuren. Diese Berufe sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Risiko für Betriebswechsel im Jahr 2010 im Vergleich zu 1990 um mindestens 30 % erhöht war. Die erzielten Ergebnisse können durch die Datenbasis beeinflusst sein. Z.B. sind geringfügig Beschäftigte erst seit 1999 in das gesetzliche Meldesystem eingeschlossen. Zudem ist eine Analyse der Ursachen der beruflichen Mobilität - etwa eine erhöhte Wechselbereitschaft oder erzwungene Wechsel - aufgrund der Datengrundlage nicht möglich." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis (2020)

    Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos ; Robin, Jean-Marc ; Launov, Andrey;

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    Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos, Andrey Launov & Jean-Marc Robin (2020): The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis. (CESifo working paper 8799), München, 50 S.

    Abstract

    "In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers. However, labour force participation actually increased because many female non-participants accepted low-paid, part-time jobs. Counterfactual simulations using estimated transition probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed part-time and full-time employment after 2002 essentially resulted from changes in registered and unregistered unemployment outflows. Yet to obtain the full decrease in registered male unemployment, we need to account for the effect of wage moderation. A calibrated Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model suggests that wage moderation is at most half as strong as the unemployment reforms in explaining changes in unemployment, non-participation and part-time employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Human Capital in Labor Economics - Novel Perspectives and Research Strategies (2020)

    Eppelsheimer, Johann;

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    Eppelsheimer, Johann (2020): Human Capital in Labor Economics - Novel Perspectives and Research Strategies. Regensburg, 156 S.

    Abstract

    "Das Bildungsniveau der Beschäftigten in Deutschland steigt kontinuierlich an. Zwischen 1980 und 2014 wuchs der Anteil der männlichen Vollzeitbeschäftigten mit einem Universitäts- oder FH-Abschluss in Westdeutschland von sechs auf 20 Prozent. Allerdings ist dieses Humankapital in Deutschland ungleich verteilt. Einerseits gibt es Städte, in denen über 30 Prozent der Beschäftigten studiert haben. Andererseits gibt es Regionen, in denen weniger als fünf Prozent der Beschäftigten einen Universitäts- oder FH-Abschluss haben.

    Wissenschaftler argumentieren, dass Humankapital die Produktivität von Beschäftigten und Gesellschaften steigert. Analog zu Investitionen in Sachkapital erhöhen Investitionen in Humankapital die Fähigkeiten und die Effizienz von Personen. Die Forschung geht daher davon aus, dass Humankapital entscheidend für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ist und führt Einkommensunterschiede zwischen Nationen auf Unterschiede in deren Humankapital zurück. Durch höhere Löhne profitieren auch die Individuen selbst von Investitionen in ihr Humankapital. Zusätzlich erzeugt Humankapital positive externe Effekte, welche die Produktivität von sozialen Kontakten steigert.

    Diese Dissertation trägt zum Thema Humankapital innerhalb von zwei Forschungsfeldern bei. Erstens ergänzt sie die Literatur zu Humankapitalexternalitäten, welche sich mit externen Effekten von individuellem Humankapital auf andere Individuen beschäftigt. Hier werden Humankapitalexternalitäten erstmalig aus einer dynamischen Perspektive betrachtet. Zusätzlich untersucht die Dissertation die geografische Reichweite von Humankapitalexternalitäten. Der zweite thematische Schwerpunkt der Arbeit trägt zur Forschung über Arbeitsmarkteffekte der Globalisierung bei. Hier wird gezeigt, dass Firmen interne Umstrukturierungen durchführen nachdem sie ausländischen Direktinvestitionen tätigen. Während der erste Schwerpunkt der Dissertation externe Produktivitätseffekte von Humankapital untersucht, beleuchtet der zweite Schwerpunkt die Entwicklung des Humankapitals von Beschäftigten nach einem exogenen Ereignis.

    Die Literatur zu Humankapitalexternalitäten beschäftigt sich fast ausschließlich mit statischen externen Effekten von Humankapital innerhalb vordefinierter geografischer Einheiten. Mit dieser Dissertation wird die Literatur um zwei Perspektiven erweitern. Das erste Kapitel untersucht externe Effekte durch intranationale Migration von Hochqualifizierten. Hierfür wird der regionale Bestand an Humankapital in Zu- und Abwanderung, sowie Arbeitsmarkteintritte und Arbeitsmarktaustritte zerlegt. Diese Zerlegung erlaubt es, die zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen von Humankapitalexternalitäten genauer zu beleuchten und zu untersuchen, wie sich externe Effekte im Zeitverlauf entwickeln. Das zweite Kapitel analysiert die geografische Reichweite von Humankapitalexternalitäten. Erstmalig in der Forschung werden hierfür funktionale Datenanalyse und exakt geokodierte Sozialversicherungsdaten verwendet, welche es erlauben, einen funktionellen Zusammenhang von Humankapitalexternalitäten und räumlicher Distanz herzustellen. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht es, die Reichweite und die räumliche Abnahme von Humankapitalexternalitäten zu bestimmen. Beide Kapitel verwenden neue Schätzmethoden, welche es erlauben, Humankapitalexternalitäten von Marktmechanismen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu trennen.

    Der zweite Schwerpunkt der Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Auswirkungen der Globalisierung auf den Arbeitsmarkt. Die Globalisierung führt zu einer veränderten Arbeitsnachfrage von Firmen. Die empirische Literatur hierzu beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit Effekten auf Löhne und Entlassungen und deutet auf heterogene Auswirkungen auf verschiedene Gruppen hin. Neben Lohnanpassungen und Entlassungen haben Firmen aber auch Anreize, sich intern umzustrukturieren. Statt vorhandene Beschäftigte zu entlassen und neue Arbeitskräfte einzustellen, kann es für Firmen Sinnvoll sein, interne Personalanpassungen durchzuführen. So verfügen interne Beschäftigte im Vergleich zu Externen über firmenspezifisches Humankapital. Auch Informationsasymmetrien bezüglich der Arbeitsproduktivität sind bei vorhandenen Beschäftigten geringer als bei Externen. Das dritte Kapitel dieser Dissertation beschäftigt sich daher mit der Frage, wie ausländische Direktinvestitionen firmeninterne Umstrukturierungen beeinflussen. Im Speziellen wird der Einfluss von ausländischen Direktinvestitionen auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Beschäftigte beruflich auf- oder absteigen und dadurch mehr oder weniger komplexe Tätigkeiten ausführen untersucht." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Spatial Decay of Human Capital Externalities - A Functional Regression Approach with Precise Geo-Referenced Data (2020)

    Eppelsheimer, Johann; Rust, Christoph ;

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    Eppelsheimer, Johann & Christoph Rust (2020): The Spatial Decay of Human Capital Externalities - A Functional Regression Approach with Precise Geo-Referenced Data. (IAB-Discussion Paper 21/2020), Nürnberg, 55 S.

    Abstract

    "Wir analysieren Humankapitalexternalitäten von Hochqualifizierten mit präzisen georeferenzierten Sozialversicherungsdaten. Functional Regression ermöglicht es uns die Konzentration von Hochqualifizierten um Arbeitsplätze herum als kontinuierliche Kurven zu beschreiben und eine von der Entfernung abhängige Spillover-Funktion zu schätzen. Unsere umfangreichen Paneldaten ermöglichen es uns außerdem räumliche Selektion von Beschäftigten zu berücksichtigen und Humankapitalexternalitäten von Angebotseffekten mittels hochdimensionaler Fixed-Effekts zu trennen. Unsere Schätzungen zeigen, dass Humankapitalexternalitäten mit der Distanz abnehmen und etwa 15 Kilometer weit reichen. Humankapitalexternalitäten aus der unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft sind doppelt so hoch wie solche aus zehn Kilometern Entfernung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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