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Jäger, Simon, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille & Benjamin Schoefer (2021): Worker Beliefs About Outside Options. (NBER working paper 29623), Cambridge, Mass, 119 S. DOI:10.3386/w29623

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"Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside options in linked administrative labor market data. In an equilibrium model, such anchoring can give rise to monopsony and labor market segmentation. In line with the model, misperceptions are particularly pronounced among workers in low-wage firms. If workers had correct beliefs, at least 10% of jobs, concentrated in low-wage firms, would not be viable at current wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Kalina, Thorsten & Claudia Weinkopf (2021): Niedriglohnbeschäftigung 2019 – deutlicher Rückgang vor allem in Ostdeutschland. (IAQ-Report 2021-06), Duisburg, 17 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/74521

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"Im Jahr 2019 arbeiteten noch 25,3 % der ostdeutschen und 18,9 % der westdeutschen Beschäftigten für einen Niedriglohn von unter 11,50 € brutto pro Stunde. In Deutschland insgesamt waren rund 7,2 Millionen Beschäftigte in einem Niedriglohnjob tätig. In den Jahren 2011 bis 2019 hat sich der Niedriglohnanteil in Ostdeutschland von 39,4 % auf 25,3 % deutlich reduziert. Allein im Jahr 2019 sank der Anteil der Niedriglohnbeschäftigten im Osten um sieben Prozentpunkte. In Westdeutschland erreichte der Niedriglohnanteil seinen höchsten Wert im Jahr 2011 (20,9 %) und schwankte danach zwischen 19,6 % und 20,6 %. Von 2016 bis 2019 ist die Niedriglohnquote von 20,4 % auf 18,9 % gesunken. Der deutliche Rückgang der Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Ostdeutschland hängt auch damit zusammen, dass in den meisten Branchen die zuvor unterschiedlich hohen tariflichen Verdienste in West- und Ostdeutschland inzwischen angeglichen worden sind." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Kaufmann, Klara, Volker Kotte, Barbara Schwengler & Doris Wiethölter (2021): Regional unterschiedliche Beschäftigungsentwicklung von Helfertätigkeiten. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 10/2021), Nürnberg, 54 S.

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"Im vorliegenden Bericht betrachten wir die Beschäftigungsentwicklung der Helfertätigkeiten, für die in der Regel kein Berufsabschluss erforderlich ist, für die Jahre 2015 bis 2019. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Zahl der Beschäftigten, die Helfer- oder Anlerntätigkeiten ausübten, in dem betrachteten Zeitraum überdurchschnittlich gestiegen ist. Zu einem großen Teil wurde die positive Beschäftigungsentwicklung von ausländischen Beschäftigten getragen, und hier vor allem von Staatsangehörigen aus den acht Hauptasylherkunftsländern, die im betrachteten Zeitraum erstmals eine Beschäftigung aufnehmen konnten. Die Entwicklung der Helfertätigkeiten verlief im Bundesländervergleich recht unterschiedlich. Grund dafür sind unterschiedliche Branchenstrukturen. Hier zeigen sich einige markante Unterschiede zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland sowie zwischen Städten und ländlichen Räumen. Während in Westdeutschland der Anstieg an Helfertätigkeiten im Baugewerbe deutlich stärker ausfiel als in den östlichen Bundesländern, waren in Ostdeutschland im Bereich Verkehr und Lagerei die höchsten Zuwächse zu verzeichnen. Zudem fiel in den östlichen Bundesländern die prozentuale Zunahme im Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen und bei den sonstigen Dienstleistungen deutlich höher aus als in Westdeutschland. Die Covid-19-Pandemie ab dem Jahr 2020 traf dann Helfertätigkeiten vergleichsweise stark und führte zu einem Beschäftigungsrückgang von 2019 bis 2020 von 2,4 Prozent, während vor allem die Spezialisten- und Expertentätigkeiten Beschäftigungszuwächse verzeichneten. Grund hierfür ist, dass bestimmte Branchen stark von der Corona-Krise betroffen waren, in denen viele Helfer beschäftigt sind, wie z.B. die wirtschaftsbezogenen Dienstleistungen, das Gastgewerbe sowie das Verarbeitende Gewerbe." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Kubis, Alexander & Martin Popp (2021): Einbruch am Arbeitsmarkt ging zulasten von Helfertätigkeiten ( Serie "Corona-Krise: Folgen für den Arbeitsmarkt" ). In: IAB-Forum H. 10.06.2021, o. Sz., 2021-06-08.

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"Die Zahl der Beschäftigten sowie der offenen Stellen im Helfer- und Fachkräftebereich ist im Pandemie-Jahr 2020 deutlich zurückgegangen. Die Nachfrage nach Arbeitskräften, deren gesuchte Qualifikation den beruflichen Anforderungsniveaus „Spezialist“ oder „Experte“ entspricht, erweist sich demgegenüber bislang als relativ robust." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Lacava, Chiara (2021): Matching and sorting across regions. (ICIR working paper series 2021,44), Frankfurt am Main, 39 S.

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"I measure the effects of workers' mobility across regions of different productivity through the lens of a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms estimated with administrative data. In an application to Italy, I find that reallocation of workers to the most productive region boosts productivity at the country level but amplifies differentials across regions. Employment rates decline as migrants foster job competition, and inequality between workers doubles in less productive areas since displacement is particularly severe for low-skill workers. Migration does affect mismatch: mobility favors co-location of agents with similar productivity but within-region rank correlation declines in the most productive region. I show that worker-firm complementarities in production account for 33% of the productivity gains. Place-based programs directed to firms, like incentives for hiring unemployed or creating high productivity jobs, raise employment rates and reduce the gaps in productivity across regions. In contrast, subsidies to attract high-skill workers in the South have limited effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lopes, Helena & Teresa Calapez (2021): Job polarisation: Capturing the effects of work organisation. In: The Economic and Labour Relations Review, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 594-613. DOI:10.1177/1035304621996064

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"This article critically challenges the findings and assumptions of mainstream job polarisation literature. Based on the European Working Conditions Survey data and on the Job Demand-Control model, which allows for capturing the organizational dimension of jobs, we examine the patterns and evolution of occupations in 22 European countries from 2005 to 2015. Instead of pervasive job polarisation, we observe a near-pervasive trend of upgrading job quality, suggesting that job polarisation may be caused by the undervaluation/devaluation of jobs low in the occupational hierarchy – not by computerization-driven changes in work tasks. Indeed, only the former can explain the decrease in the number of low-quality jobs while the number of low-paid jobs increases. After documenting the relevance of firm-level organisational choices, we suggest that counteracting job polarisation requires, beyond meso-level collective bargaining, a public intervention that promotes participatory decision-making in firms. JEL Codes: J2, J81, M540" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Merz, Joachim & Bettina Scherg (2021): Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being - 20 Years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany. (IZA discussion paper 14870), Bonn, 40 S.

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"Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any individual activity. In particular, we consider genuine personal time as a pronounced source of social participation in the sense of social inclusion/exclusion and Amartya Sen's capability approach. With an interdependence approach to multidimensional polarization we allow compensation between time and income, parameters of a CES-type subjective well-being function, where a possible substitution is evaluated empirically by the German population instead of arbitrarily chosen. Beyond subjective well-being indices we propose and apply a new intensity/gap measure to multidimensional polarization, the mean minimum polarization gap 2DGAP. This polarization intensity measure provides transparency with regard to each single attribute, which is important for targeted policies, while at the same time their interdependent relations is respected. The empirical investigation of interdependent multidimensional polarization incidence and intensity uses the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and detailed time use diary data from the three German Time Use Surveys (GTUS) 1991/92, 2001/02 and the actual 2012/13. We focus on the working individuals where the working poor requires increasing interest in the economic and social political discussion. The microeconometric two-stage selectivity corrected estimation of interdependent multidimensional risk (incidence) and intensity quantifies socio-economic factors behind. Four striking results appear: First, genuine personal leisure time additional to income is a significant subjective well-being and polarization dimension. Second, its interdependence, its compensation/substitution, ev" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Nightingale, Madeline (2021): Part-time employment and the gender gap in low pay for UK employees: what changed over the period 1996–2016? In: Community, work & family, Jg. 24, H. 3, S. 272-290. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2019.1681938

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"This article assesses the contribution of part-time employment to the gender gap in low pay for UK employees 1996–2016. Over this period, there has been a sustained decline in the importance of part-time employment as a contributing factor to the gender gap in low pay. This is largely due to the fact that the link between part-time employment and low pay has become weaker over time (shifts in the gender composition of the part-time workforce are found to be less important). However, part-time work continues to play a crucial role in shaping persistent gender inequality in low pay for UK employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schnabel, Claus (2021): Low-wage employment. Are low-paid jobs stepping stones to higher-paid jobs, do they become persistent, or do they lead to recurring unemployment? (IZA world of labor 276), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.276.v2

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"Ungeachtet geringer Aufwärtsmobilität können Niedriglohnjobs für manche Arbeitnehmergruppen ein Sprungbrett zu besser bezahlten Arbeitsplätzen bilden. Dieser Befund kann „Work first“-Strategien wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Reformen unterstützen. Allerdings ist Niedriglohnbeschäftigung kein selbstkorrigierendes System, sondern kann Narben hinterlassen. Um Aufstiegschancen zu vergrößern, ist ein ganzheitlicher Politikansatz notwendig: er sollte Strategien der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik ebenso umfassen wie eine Philosophie des lebenslangen Lernens und die Unterstützung von Unternehmen, die stärker in die Qualifizierung ihrer Beschäftigten investieren und ihnen bessere Perspektiven außerhalb des Niedriglohnsegments verschaffen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Schäfer, Holger (2021): Niedriglohnbeschäftigung in Deutschland. Chance oder Risiko? In: IW-Trends, Jg. 48, H. 4, S. 23-44. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.21-04-03

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"Niedriglohnbeschäftigung wird häufig als soziales Problem wahrgenommen, das es mit gesetzgeberischen Maßnahmen zu begrenzen gelte. Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels, dass einerseits zwar durchaus Anzeichen dafür bestehen, dass Niedriglohnbeschäftigte häufiger soziale Problemlagen erfahren als Beschäftigte mit höheren Löhnen. Andererseits stehen sie in der Regel besser da als Arbeitslose. Zudem erfüllt der Niedriglohnsektor eine wichtige Rolle bei der Arbeitsmarktintegration von zuvor inaktiven Personen. Mithilfe eines Propensity Score Matchings kann gezeigt werden, dass Arbeitslose sowie Nichterwerbstätige mit Erwerbswunsch durch die Aufnahme einer Niedriglohnbeschäftigung ihre Arbeitsmarktchancen deutlich erhöhen im Vergleich zu einer Kontrollgruppe von gleichartigen Personen, die keine Niedriglohnbeschäftigung aufnahmen. So hatten die Niedriglohnbeschäftigten nach fünf Jahren rund fünf Monate weniger in Arbeitslosigkeit verbracht. Auch die Einkommensperspektiven verbesserten sich signifikant: Fünf Jahre nach dem Eintritt in den Niedriglohnsektor haben die Arbeitnehmer 12.000 Euro mehr verdient als die Kontrollgruppe. Die Herausforderung des Niedriglohnsektors besteht daher nicht in seiner Begrenzung durch gesetzliche Maßnahmen, sondern in der Verbesserung der Chance, aus ihm heraus in höhere Lohnsegmente aufzusteigen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Struffolino, Emanuela & Zachary Van Winkle (2021): Gender and race differences in pathways out of in-work poverty in the US. In: Social science research, Jg. 99. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102585

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(2021): Niedriglöhne in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion DIE LINKE (Drucksache 19/31814). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen 19/32223 (26.08.2021)), 82 S.

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Die Bundesregierung antwortet auf die Anfrage der Fraktion DIE LINKE zu Niedriglöhnen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (IAB)

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(2021): Armut und Medianentgelte - Implikationen aus dem 6. Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion der AfD (Drucksache 20/153 ). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen 20/276 (15.12.2021)), 16 S.

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Die ersten sechs Fragen/Antworten betreffen die Entwicklung der Armutsrisikoquote im Zeitverlauf in Deutschland (2000-2020) und im europäischen Vergleich für das Jahr 2020, die Aufwendungen für Sozialleistungen 2000-2019, sowie die Anzahl und den Anteil der Beschäftigten im unteren Entgeltbereich in den Jahren 2000 bis 2020. Als Grundlage für die Beantwortung der Fragen 7 bis 29 wurde das Merkmal 'Entgelt' aus der Beschäftigungsstatistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit herangezogen. Dabei geht es im Einzelnen um die Anzahl und den Anteil der sozialversicherungspflichtig Vollzeitbeschäftigten der Kerngruppe im Anforderungsniveau 'Helfer', 'Fachkraft', 'Spezialist', der Kerngruppe in den Wirtschaftsabschnitten Gastgewerbe, Handel, Verkehr und Lagerei, Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen, Verarbeitendes Gewerbe, Erbringung von sonstigen wirtschaftlichen Dienstleistungen, in der Berufsgruppe 513, Lagerwirtschaft, Post und Zustellung, Güterumschlag, Fahrzeugführung im Straßenverkehr, Fahrzeugführung im Eisenbahnverkehr, Gewerbe- und Gesundheitsaufsicht, Desinfektion, Reinigung, Verkauf von Lebensmitteln, Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege, Altenpflege. Die weiteren Fragen betreffen die Anteile deutscher und ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit, Asylherkunftsländer und die Ursachen für die zunehmende 'Erosion' der sozialen Lage der gesellschaftlichen Mitte. (IAB)

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Careja, Romana, Hans-Jürgen Andreß & Marco Giesselmann (2020): What Difference Does a Negative Opinion Climate Make? Assessing Immigrants' Low-Wage Risks in Times of Heightened Anti-Immigrant Attitudes. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Jg. 72, H. 2, S. 265-288. DOI:10.1007/s11577-020-00697-w

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"Dieser Beitrag argumentiert, dass ein negatives Meinungsklima gegenüber Einwanderern das Niedriglohnrisiko von Einwanderern der zweiten Generation erhöht. Eine Matching-basierte Analyse von Daten aus 18 Wellen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) liefert deutliche Indizien für diese Hypothese. Im Einklang mit existierenden Studien über die Löhne von Migranten zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass kontextuelle normative Faktoren einen substanziellen Einfluss haben. Sie ergänzen auch Unternehmensstudien, die Lohnlücken von Einwanderern der zweiten Generation durch den wahrgenommenen Grad an Wettbewerb zwischen deutschen und nichtdeutschen Arbeitnehmern erklären." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag)

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Grabka, Markus M. & Konstantin Göbler (2020): Der Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland. Falle oder Sprungbrett für Beschäftigte? Gütersloh, 52 S. DOI:10.11586/2020032

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"In der Corona-Krise offenbaren sich gesellschaftliche Missstände, so auch im Niedriglohnsektor. Half seine Ausweitung Langzeitarbeitslose und Geringqualifizierte in Arbeit zu bringen, entpuppt er sich heute für viele Beschäftigte als Sackgasse. Nur gut einem Viertel aller Niedriglohnbeschäftigten gelingt der Aufstieg, während die Hälfte über mehrere Jahre im Niedriglohnsektor verharrt." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Gürtzgen, Nicole & André Diegmann (2020): Does low-pay persist across different regimes? Evidence from German unification. In: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Jg. 28, H. 3, S. 413-440., 2019-11-17. DOI:10.1111/ecot.12244

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"Using German administrative data, we study across‐regime low‐pay persistence in the context of an economic transformation process. We first show that individuals' initial allocation to the post‐unification low‐wage sector was close to random in terms of market‐regime unobservables. Consistent with a weak connection between individuals' true productivity and their pre‐unification low‐wage status, the extent of across‐regime state dependence is found to be small and appears to vanish over time. For males, across‐regime state dependence is most pronounced among the medium‐ and high‐skilled, suggesting the depreciation of human capital as an explanation." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Hirsch, Donald, Matt Padley, Juliet Stone & Laura Valadez-Martinez (2020): The Low Income Gap. A New Indicator Based on a Minimum Income Standard. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 149, H. 1, S. 67-85. DOI:10.1007/s11205-019-02241-6

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"In many high-income countries, governments seek to ensure that households at least have sufficient incomes to afford basic essentials such as food and clothing, but also to help citizens reach socially acceptable living standards allowing full participation in society. Their success in doing so is commonly monitored in terms of how many citizens are below a poverty line set relative to median income, and by how far below it they fall (the 'poverty gap'). Yet the threshold below which this gap starts to be measured is arbitrary, begging the question of what level of low income needs addressing. A more ambitious measure, presented in this paper, considers the extent to which people fall short of a benchmark representing a socially agreed minimum standard. This 'low income gap' can be used to represent the distance a society has to go to eliminate income that is undesirably low. The paper presents the indicator, its meaning and some recent trends in the United Kingdom, where the methodology behind the indicator has been pioneered. The results demonstrate that this empirically derived benchmark has the potential to be of value in other countries, in assessing whether they are making progress in reducing low income." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Nightingale, Madeline (2020): Stepping-stone or dead end: To what extent does part-time employment enable progression out of low pay for male and female employees in the UK? In: Journal of social policy, Jg. 49, H. 1, S. 41-59. DOI:10.1017/S0047279419000205

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"Using data from Understanding Society and the British Household Panel Survey, this article explores the relationship between working part-time and progression out of low pay for male and female employees using a discrete-time event history model. The results show that working part-time relative to full-time decreases the likelihood of progression out of low pay, defined as earning below two-thirds of the median hourly wage. However, part-time workers who transition to full-time employment experience similar rates of progression to full-time workers. This casts doubt on the idea that part-time workers have lower progression rates because they have lower abilities or work motivation and reinforces the need to address the quality of part-time jobs in the UK labour market. The negative effect of working part-time is greater for men than for women, although women are more at risk of becoming trapped in low pay in the sense that they tend to work part-time for longer periods of time, particularly if they have children. Factors such as childcare policy and Universal Credit (UC) incentivise part-time employment for certain groups, although in the right labour market conditions UC may encourage some part-time workers to increase their working hours." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Filandri, Marianna & Emanuela Struffolino (2019): Individual and household in-work poverty in Europe. Understanding the role of labor market characteristics. In: European Societies, Jg. 21, H. 1, S. 130-157. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2018.1536800

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"The article presents an analysis of the association between labor market characteristics related to female employment and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition refers to workers whose salary is below 60% of the median, while the household-level definition refers to individuals whose household income is below 60% of the median. Microdata from the 2014 EU-SILC survey and macrodata on involuntary part-time employment and female labor market participation are used to perform a multilevel analysis on 31 European countries. The results show a positive relationship between involuntary part-time work and in-work poverty according to the household definition. Female labor market participation is positively associated with the individual definition and negatively with the household one. However, after controlling for the level of within-country income inequality, only the effect of the female employment rate remains positive and significant for the individual in-work. These results shed light on the multifaceted role of labor market characteristics related to female employment and their implications for policy. We argue that the promotion of female participation should be combined with explicit measures to reduce the disadvantageous position of women in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fischer, Benjamin, Robin Jessen & Viktor Steiner (2019): Work incentives and the cost of redistribution via tax-transfer reforms under constrained labor supply. (Economics. Diskussionsbeiträge des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin 2019,10), Berlin, 39 S.

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"Using information on desired and actual hours of work, we formulate a discrete choice model of constrained labor supply. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the microsimulation model STSM, we find that hours and participation elasticities are substantially smaller than those in the conventional model. We evaluate two reforms for Germany. Both redistribute to the working poor. The first reform is financed through an increase in the effective marginal tax rate for welfare recipients, the second through an increase in taxes. The first reform is desirable with equal weights, the second if the social planner has substantial redistributive taste." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Godechot, Olivier & Zinaïda Salibekyan (2019): Should we clash or should I go? The impact of low wage and poor working conditions on the exit-voice trade-off. In: Labour, Jg. 33, H. 4, S. 425-449. DOI:10.1111/labr.12155

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"We use two linked employer - employee datasets to adapt Hirschman's model of consumer behaviour into the labour market and to argue that dissatisfaction with pay should favour exit while dissatisfaction with working conditions should favour voice. A deterioration of our working conditions index increases the probability of participation in collective action when an increase in log hourly wage decreases the probability of quitting. A rationale for this trade-off is based on information: first, information on the price of alternative options is more accessible than information on their quality; second, voice produces more information than exit and favours opportunities for specific improvements." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Grimes, Donald R., Penelope B. Prime & Mary Beth Walker (2019): Geographical variation in wages of workers in low-wage service occupations. A U.S. metropolitan area analysis. In: Economic Development Quarterly, Jg. 33, H. 2, S. 121-133. DOI:10.1177/0891242419836493

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"Low-wage, service-providing occupations accounted for almost half of all U.S. net job growth between 2006 and 2016. The authors study the variation in wages of low-wage service employees across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, using cross-sectional estimations for 2016 for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile wage rates. New data are used to examine the impact of different cost-of-living adjustments on model results, arguing that the preferred adjustment separates housing costs from other costs. The main results are that strong labor market conditions positively contribute to real wages in most of the categories; minimum wages contribute positively to the 10th percentile of four occupations with evidence of influencing higher wages in the 50th and 90th percentiles; and using the authors' cost-of-living adjustment and controlling for housing costs, the presence of an educated population did not substantially raise wages in the four low-wage, low-skill occupations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hick, Rod & Alba Lanau (2019): Tax credits and in-work poverty in the UK. An analysis of income packages and anti-poverty performance. In: Social policy and society, Jg. 18, H. 2, S. 219-236. DOI:10.1017/S1474746418000118

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"This article examines the relationship between tax credits and in-work poverty, drawing on the findings from a major national study on in-work poverty. We present an analysis of (i) the income packages of working families and (ii) the performance of tax credits in relation to anti-poverty objectives, drawing on data from the Households Below Average Income survey between 2004/5 and 2014/15. Our study generates five novel findings, including that tax credits reduce the poverty gap of recipient households by two-thirds; that tax credit cuts post-2010/11 have served to focus payments on single parent families and households with greater numbers of children; and that tax credits make up just one third of the social security income of working households. We argue that understanding in greater depth the interaction between tax credits and income adequacy amongst working families is necessary to provide a firmer foundation for an effective assault on in-work poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Müller, Torsten (2019): She works hard for the money: tackling low pay in sectors dominated by women – evidence from health and social care. (Working paper / European Trade Union Institute 2019,11), Brüssel, 27 S.

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"The author is very grateful to Lena Hipp from the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) for her contributions to this report; beyond compiling, processing and analysing the statistical data in chapter two, her expertise and insight into the subject were invaluable. This report benefits greatly from the input from trade union experts; the author thanks the trade union representatives from across Europe who replied to the questionnaire. A special thank you goes to Maria Hansson from Kommunal in Sweden, Kim Øst-Jacobsen from FOA in Denmark, Jorma Peussa from JHL in Finland and to Alexa Wolfstädter from Ver.di in Germany for the time they took for more in-depth interviews. Finally, this report would not have been possible without the unwavering support of Richard Pond from EPSU throughout the process of researching and writing this report." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Phelan, Brian J. (2019): Hedonic-based labor supply substitution and the ripple effect of minimum wages. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 37, H. 3, S. 905-947. DOI:10.1086/702651

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"This paper analyzes a new explanation of the 'ripple effect' of minimum wages based on how minimum wages affect hedonic compensation. Minimum wage hikes lower compensating differentials at low-skill undesirable jobs because they raise wages at the most desirable low-skill job, the minimum wage job. This change in hedonic compensation may cause some individuals to optimally leave low-wage undesirable jobs and seek more desirable employment. If labor supply falls at low-wage undesirable jobs, employers would raise wages, consistent with the ripple effect. Empirically, I provide evidence that hedonic-based labor supply substitution is taking place and contributing to the ripple effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Plum, Alexander (2019): The British low-wage sector and the employment prospects of the unemployed. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 51, H. 13, S. 1411-1432. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2018.1527454

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"Are low wages a way for the unemployed to switch to higher-paying jobs? Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, the labour market dynamics of unemployed, low-paid and higher-paid employed men are analysed. Moreover, the respective (un)employment duration and occupational skill level are accounted for. Results show that in general low wages significantly reduce the risk of future unemployment and increase the chances of ascending the salary ladder, especially in the case of long-term unemployment (>360 days). Furthermore, the occupational skill level has a substantial influence on the upward mobility of low-paid jobs: individuals working in the initial period in a low-paid and higher-skilled occupation have on average an 11 percentage points higher probability of entering higher pay compared to when working in a low-paid and low-skilled occupation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Plum, Alexander & Gundi Knies (2019): Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England. In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 14, H. 11. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0224290

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"There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. Low-pay work tends to be undertaken more locally but no empirical analysis has focused on how local opportunities alter prospects. Using Understanding Society data for England matched with local unemployment rates, we estimate dynamic random effects panel models, which show robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is lower for those who are currently on low pay compared to those who are currently unemployed. The low-paid also have a higher chance than the unemployed of becoming higher-paid. These findings are most marked in neighbourhoods with high unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schlüter, Teresa (2019): Real wages, amenities and the adjustment of working hours across local labour markets. In: Papers in regional science, Jg. 98, H. 3, S. 1291-1316. DOI:10.1111/pirs.12413

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"High prices that are not offset by equally high incomes are often seen as an affordability problem. To get by, poorer workers in these areas might have to work longer hours. Alternatively, lower real wages might indicate a more desirable place to live and induce high-income people to trade off cash for leisure time. Both interpretations suggest a link between real wages and an individual's labour supply choice. Using panel data, I observe how working hours change, when workers move place. I find that working hours increase by 0.42% for a 10% decrease of local real wage. The effect is stronger for low-skilled workers at the bottom of the wage distribution, indicating an affordability mechanism that might further exacerbate inequality." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Struffolino, Emanuela & Zachary Van Winkle (2019): Is there only one way out of in-work poverty? Difference by gender and race in the US. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. Discussion papers SP 1 2019-601), Berlin, 41 S.

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"The persistency of in-work poverty during the last decades challenges the idea that employment is sufficient to escape poverty. Research has focused on the risk factors associated with in-work poverty, but scholars know little about individuals' experiences after exiting it. The Sequence Analysis Multistate Model procedure is applied to three high-quality longitudinal data sources (NLSY79, NLSY97, and PSID) to establish a typology of employment pathways out of in-work poverty and estimate how gender and race are associated with each pathway. We identify five distinct pathways characterized by varying degrees of labor market attachment, economic vulnerability, and volatility. White men are most likely exit in-work poverty into stable employment outside of poverty, while Black men and women likely remain vulnerable and at-risk of social exclusion as well as recurrent spells of in-work poverty. Gender and race differences persist even after controlling for labor market related characteristics and family demographic behavior." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Trlifajová, Lucie & Jakob Hurrle (2019): Work must pay: Does it? Precarious employment and employment motivation for low-income households. In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 29, H. 3, S. 376-395. DOI:10.1177/0958928718805870

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"One of the core dilemmas of current welfare politics is the question of how to ensure social protection while providing incentives to seek employment at the same time. A way to address this dilemma is to base policies and policy models on the principle notion that 'work must pay'; in other words, income from employment should be higher than the social support of the unemployed. However, how accurately do these approaches and models represent the reality of benefit recipients, particularly in the context of increased employment precariousness? In this article, we use the cases of two disadvantaged regions in Czech Republic in order to contrast the presumptions of 'making work pay' policies with the everyday experience of welfare recipients. As we show, their situations are strongly shaped by current changes in the labour market, particularly the precarious character of accessible employment and high levels of indebtedness. The modelling of financial employment incentives and the public policies based on these calculations often do not correspond with the reality of welfare recipients that are often cycling in and out of precarious forms of employment. However, the authors' main claim is that the very idea of the 'work must pay' approach focuses on the wrong question. A truly functioning financial incentive would need to focus not solely on the difference in income between those who work and those who do not work, but rather should analyse what type of arrangements allow working households to rise permanently above the poverty line." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Brülle, Jan (2018): Poverty trends in Germany and Great Britain. The impact of changes in labour markets, families, and social policy. (Research), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 319 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-20892-9

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"Jan Brülle shows how poverty risks in Germany between 1992 and 2012 increased concentrated on those with low educational levels, in lower occupational positions, and with precarious employment careers, as the country's welfare state failed to adapt to widening inequalities in households' market incomes. Contrasting the German experience with Great Britain, where social transfers to low-income families in concert with favourable labour market conditions helped to reduce poverty between 1992 and the global financial crisis, he presents the most comprehensive comparative study on poverty trends in these two countries to date. Moving beyond a cross-sectional perspective on poverty, the author analyses why it became not only more frequent in Germany, but also more persistent in individual life-courses, and why faster exits have driven the decline in poverty in Great Britain." (Publisher information, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Cho, Yoonyoung & Ummul Ruthbah (2018): Does workfare work well? The case of the employment generation program for the poorest in Bangladesh. (IZA discussion paper 11473), Bonn, 38 S.

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"Evidence on the effectiveness of workfare as an anti-poverty program in developing countries is weak compared with the relatively well-established role of public works during economic crisis as a social safety net. This paper contributes to evidence building by examining the impact of a large-scale workfare program in Bangladesh, the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest. Taking advantage of the program's distinguishable feature of direct wage transfer to a person's bank account, the paper uses accessibility to local banks as an instrumental variable to identify the program's impacts on rural social assistance beneficiaries. Based on locality-by-time fixed effects models over two rounds of locality panel data, the analysis finds that the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest has contributed to increasing overall household consumption and reducing outstanding loans. In particular, expenditures on quality food and health care have significantly increased, which likely helps individuals continue to engage in income-generating activities in the labor market. However, the implementation costs and poor quality of public assets built through work projects could potentially undermine the program's efficiency. Moreover, further evidence is required on the impacts of work experience through workfare on subsequent labor market outcomes and the value of public assets, to assess the program's effectiveness compared with administratively simpler alternative instruments such as unconditional cash transfers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fedorets, Alexandra, Alexey Filatov & Cortnie Shupe (2018): Great expectations: reservation wages and the minimum wage reform. (SOEPpapers on multidisciplinary panel data research at DIW Berlin 968), Berlin, 12 S.

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"We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens adjust their reservation wages more than immigrants. Moreover, suggestive evidence points to a compensation mechanism in which immigrants trade wage growth against job security." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hernandez, Victor Perez, Ricky Kanabar & Alita Nandi (2018): Low income dynamics among ethnic minorities in Great Britain. (ISER working paper 2018-06), Colchester, 55 S.

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"Using data from Understanding Society, and robust estimation methods we find that Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups have the highest poverty entry rates (23-26%), followed by Indian, black Caribbean and black African groups (9-11%) and the white majority (6%). Indians and Pakistani's have the highest poverty persistence rates (66%), white majority the lowest (52%), the remaining groups around 55%. We find consider- able within group heterogeneity: for most groups, education of the head of household (HoH) and household employment rate reduces poverty entry risk, while the presence of children increases it (education does not matter for black African and Bangladeshi groups and presence of children for Bangladeshi, black Caribbean and black African groups). We also find that living in London reduces the risk of poverty entry for Indians and white majority while ill-health of the HoH increases the poverty entry risk for white majority. The only factor that affects the risk of poverty persistence is household type although the type of household that matters varies across ethnic group. We also show that simple models which ignore initial poverty status and non-random attrition in estimating poverty persistence and poverty entry, underestimate (overestimate) the magnitude of poverty persistence for the Indian (black African) groups. Finally, we find scarring effects of experiencing poverty for black African and white majority groups." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Häfele, Eva (2018): Prekarität und Erwerbsarmut im Fokus. Entwicklungen in Vorarlberg von 2008 bis 2018. Feldkirch, 144 S.

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"Die vorliegende Studie nimmt die Entwicklungen von Prekarität und Erwerbsarmut in Vorarlberg im Zeitraum 2008 bis 2018 in den Blick. Sie ist damit eine Folgeuntersuchung zu den beiden Studien im Auftrag der AK Vorarlberg 'Schicksal Prekarität? Maßnahmen für Vorarlberg' aus dem Jahr 2008 und 'Arm trotz Arbeit. Working Poor (Erwerbsarme) in Vorarlberg' aus dem Jahr 2010. Prekäre Beschäftigungen gehen in vielen Fällen mit Phasen der Erwerbsarmut einher, nämlich dann, wenn sie nicht genügend zum Haushaltseinkommen beisteuern, um dieses über die Armutsgefährdungsschwelle zu heben. In diesem Zeitraum der vergangenen zehn Jahre sind neue Entwicklungen des Arbeitsmarktes infolge von Zuwanderung aus den EU-Staaten und seit 2015 auch von Geflüchteten spürbar geworden. Digitalisierung und Automatisierung haben zugenommen und werden in den nächsten Jahren verstärkt sowohl in den Produktions- als auch in den Dienstleistungsbranchen in Erscheinung treten. Prekarität in Form atypischer Beschäftigungen ist in ihren unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen generell gewachsen. Dies gilt vor allem für die Beschäftigung von Frauen in Teilzeit. Deren gestiegene Zahl ist die größte quantitative Veränderung innerhalb der zehn Jahre. Geringfügig Beschäftigte haben leicht abgenommen, aber neue Erwerbsformen wie Crowdworking und Sharing-Plattformen nehmen zu. Bei den selbständig Erwerbstätigen geht das zahlenmäßige Wachstum vor allem auf die Ein-Personen-Unternehmen zurück - hier wiederum in besonderem Maß auf die von Frauen gegründeten Unternehmen und ganz konkret auf die wachsende Zahl der selbständigen Personenbetreuerinnen. Bei den Arbeitskräfteüberlassungen kann in Vorarlberg eine Zunahme der Personen aus dem EWR-Ausland festgestellt werden, auch die Zahl der ausländischen Beschäftigten nach der EU-Entsenderichtlinie steigt kontinuierlich an. Risikogruppen für Prekarität und Erwerbsarmut haben sich qualitativ in den letzten zehn Jahren nicht verändert. Es sind nach wie vor Beschäftigte in Niedriglohnbranchen sowie Geringqualifizierte mit maximal Pflichtschulabschluss. Sie haben das größte Risiko, immer wieder arbeitslos zu werden beziehungsweise in eine dauerhafte Langzeiterwerbslosigkeit zu geraten. Um dem gegenzusteuern, ist der zweite Arbeitsmarkt zur Wiedereingliederung in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt ein unverzichtbares Instrument geworden. Dies zeigt sich in der Zunahme der Eintritte in Projekte des zweiten Arbeitsmarktes bis Anfang 2017, wobei ein vorläufiger Rückgang der Eintritte auf Grund guter konjunktureller Entwicklung folgte. Aus der Darstellung der verschiedenen Formen von Prekarität und Erwerbsarmut sowie der statistischen Erfassung ihres Umfangs werden im abschließenden Teil der Studie Handlungsfelder für Maßnahmen identifiziert. Hier haben auch Expertinnen- und Experteninterviews wertvolle Einsichten geliefert. Die Arbeiterkammer Vorarlberg formuliert am Schluss die aus ihrer Sicht wichtigsten Forderungen, um Prekarität und Erwerbsarmut in Vorarlberg wirkungsvoll zu begegnen." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)

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Keldenich, Carina & Andreas Knabe (2018): Women's labor market responses to their partners' unemployment and low-pay employment. (CESifo working paper 7377), München, 30 S.

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"This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in the previous period (within-effect) and their partners' overall probability of being unemployed (between-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners' employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women's labor market choices and outcomes similar to that of his unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Leung, Pauline & Alexandre Mas (2018): Employment effects of the affordable care act medicaid expansions. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 57, H. 2, S. 206-234. DOI:10.1111/irel.12207

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"We examine whether the recent expansions in Medicaid from the Affordable Care Act reduced 'employment lock' among childless adults who were previously ineligible for public coverage. We compare employment in states that chose to expand Medicaid versus those that chose not to expand, before and after implementation. We find that although the expansion increased Medicaid coverage by 3.0 percentage points among childless adults, there was no significant impact on employment." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Marchal, Sarah & Ive Marx (2018): Stemming the tide. What have European Union countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures? In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 28, H. 1, S. 18-33. DOI:10.1177/0958928717704747

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"Governments across the European Union (EU) have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when structural economic shifts are putting pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This article focuses on trends in minimum wages, income taxes and work-related benefits within a selection of 15 EU countries, for the period 2001 - 2012, with three US states included as reference cases. We find evidence for eroding relative minimum wages in various EU countries, yet combined with catch-up growth in the new member states. We also find that governments counteracted eroding minimum wages through direct income support measures, especially for lone parents. Most prevalent among these were substantial declines in income tax liabilities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Vacas-Soriano, Carlos (2018): The 'Great Recession' and low pay in Europe. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 24, H. 3, S. 205-220. DOI:10.1177/0959680117715932

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"This article contributes to the literature on low-paid work by analysing the shares of low-paid employment in the period 2006 - 2014 and the underlying causes. I use an inflation-adjusted low-pay threshold anchored at 60 percent of median wages to assess the impact of the Great Recession, which increased the share of low-paid employees in two-thirds of European countries and in the EU as a whole. This was driven by a general decline in real wages, which was particularly intense in European periphery countries and at the bottom of the wage distribution as well as among employees with shorter tenure. However, compositional effects either prevented a larger expansion of low-pay shares by masking the real extent of the wage correction or were generally negligible in driving low-pay shares. Moreover, growing part-time employment emerges as a significant source of low-paid work from the onset of the crisis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Zwart, Sanne & Mark Baker (2018): Improving productivity and job quality of low-skilled workers in the United Kingdom. (OECD Economics Department working papers 1457), Paris, 36 S. DOI:10.1787/14dfd584-en

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"More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement. The lack of skills development starts at young ages and continues in secondary education; despite a modest reduction in recent years, the educational attainment gap between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students remains high. The low participation in lifelong learning of low-skilled individuals puts them at risk of falling behind in meeting the changing skill demands of the dynamic labour market. Ongoing reforms to the vocational education and training (VET) system and apprenticeship system should have a positive impact on low-skilled productivity, enabling students to gain the necessary basic skills and for workers to find quality jobs. Improving the targeting of active labour market policies, and ensuring that the ongoing increases in the national living wage are delivered in a sustainable way will also play an important role in improving job quality and reducing the high rate of youth neither employed or in education or training. Policy responses to the rise of non-standard work will also be essential in improving the job quality of the low-skilled." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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(2018): Niedriglöhne in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten und der Fraktion DIE LINKE (Drucksache 19/5340). (Verhandlungen des Deutschen Bundestages. Drucksachen 19/6067 (28.11.2018)), 291 S.

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Die Bundesregierung antwortet auf die Anfrage der Fraktion DIE LINKE zu Niedriglöhnen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. (IAB)

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Ayala, Luis & Milagros Paniagua (2017): The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain. (EUROMOD working paper 2017,17), Colchester: EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, 36 S.

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"In-work benefits (IWBs) have become very common transfer programs that seek to meet both efficiency and equity targets. An expanding literature has assessed the effects of these policies on income distribution and labor supply showing important implications for female labor participation. In this paper, we estimate the distributional and behavioral impacts of a simulated IWB in Spain based on the replacement of the existing working mother tax credit (WMTC) using as a reference the US Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). We simulate the effects of the proposed scheme using EUROMOD and a discrete choice model of labor supply. Our results show that the enhancement of the proposed IWB would have significant and positive effects both in terms of female labor participation and inequality and poverty reduction. The introduction of this IWB would generate a substantial increase in labor participation at the extensive margin and a non-negligible reduction at the intensive margin." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Daly, Mary (2017): Money-related meanings and practices in low-income and poor families. In: Sociology, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 450-465. DOI:10.1177/0038038515616355

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"This article focuses on the meanings and repertoires of action associated with money in low-income and poverty circumstances. Based on interviews with 51 people, the analysis reveals how people on a low income actively engage with money as a way of situating themselves in their complex worlds. Money is investigated at two levels: praxis and orientation regarding spending, and as part of self-identity. In regard to spending, people displayed two main repertoires: one was functional (viewing money as a way of meeting material need) and the second relational (with money interpreted in regard to relationships and upholding of personal and familial values). These repertoires in turn link into self-understanding and world view. For people in poverty and low income, money can be a disabler, detracting from a valued identity and sense of future but a counter, more positive, orientation normalises lack of money, by reference to skills and character development and core values and relationships. The research as a whole underlines the complexity of money in low-income or poverty settings, the agency and creativity which people bring to its use and the diverse meanings they invest it with." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dauth, Christine (2017): Regional discontinuities and the effectiveness of further training subsidies for low-skilled employees. (IAB-Discussion Paper 07/2017), Nürnberg, 43 S.

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"In diesem Beitrag untersuche ich die Wirkung von Weiterbildungssubventionen auf die Arbeitsmarktchancen von gering Qualifizierten zwischen 2007 und 2012. Mit Hilfe detaillierter Prozessdaten bestimme ich Unterschiede in den konditionalen Politikstilen zwischen den lokalen Arbeitsagenturen und nutze diese unscharfe Diskontinuität als Instrument um kausale Effekte zu identifizieren. Für 'complier', d.h. Personen, die die Subventionen nur aufgrund eines bestimmten Politikstils einer Arbeitsagentur erhalten, erhöhen sich aggregierte Beschäftigung und Einkommen. Besonders stark profitieren dabei Frauen, unter 35jährige, Personen ohne deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft und Teilnehmer in den Jahren vor der Wirtschaftskrise von 2009." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Dingeldey, Irene, Andreas Etling, Till Kathmann & Paul de Beer (2017): Niedriglohnentwicklung und Lohnungleichheit im Drei-Länder-Vergleich. Der Einfluss kollektiver Akteure. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 70, H. 7, S. 499-506. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2017-7-499

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"Die unterschiedliche Entwicklung der Tarifsysteme in Europa geht mit verschiedenen Dynamiken der Entwicklung von Niedriglohn und Lohnungleichheit einher. Dies wird in diesem Aufsatz am Beispiel der Niederlande, Österreichs und Deutschlands - also weitgehend ähnlicher Ökonomien - nachvollzogen. Die Autoren ergänzen institutionelle Erklärungen, wie sie in der Literatur betont werden, durch die Analyse der Strategien der Sozialpartner und des Staates. Für Österreich zeigt sich, dass die Arbeitgeber ihre Flexibilisierungsziele in einem stabilen, umfassenden Tarifsystem nur bedingt durchsetzen können. In Verbindung mit einer Strategie der Arbeitsplatzsicherung nehmen Gewerkschaften allerdings eine moderate Lohnungleichheit und Niedriglohnanteile in Kauf. In den Niederlanden konnten die Gewerkschaften ihre solidarische Lohnpolitik trotz institutioneller Stabilität nicht realisieren, da die Regierung die relative Absenkung der unteren Löhne forcierte. In Deutschland haben die Gewerkschaften mit der erfolgreichen Durchsetzung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns die Lohnungleichheit verringert. Zur Senkung der hohen Niedriglohnquote scheinen jedoch weitere Maßnahmen zur Stabilisierung des Tarifsystems notwendig." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Haskova, Hana & Radka Dudová (2017): Precarious work and care responsibilities in the economic crisis. In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 23, H. 1, S. 47-63. DOI:10.1177/0959680116672279

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"Economic transformation after 1989 and the global economic recession that began in 2008 have caused an increase in precarious work in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. As a result of refamilialization, precarious work acquired a specific form for women. We use the Czech Republic as an example in analysing a trend that is obvious throughout the Visegrád countries and apply the capabilities approach to understand the dynamics of precarious work in the lives of women with care responsibilities. Neither the objective characteristics of work nor its subjective assessment alone makes it possible to understand precarious work. The explanation lies in the (temporal) dynamics of the interconnection between the two: insecure jobs accepted by women with care responsibilities as a temporary strategy may turn into a trap excluding them from a stable job." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Hudson, Maria, Gina Netto, Mike Noon, Filip Sosenko, Philomena de Lima & Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen (2017): Ethnicity and low wage traps. Favouritism, homosocial reproduction and economic marginalization. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 31, H. 6, S. 992-1009. DOI:10.1177/0950017016674898

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"This article analyses the relationship between cultural difference, social connections and opportunity structures using interview evidence from low-paid workers and managers in local government, the health service, facilities management and housing. Exploring the operation of homosocial reproduction it reveals the double-edged nature of informality and the role of favouritism in particular in perpetuating ethnic advantage and privilege. While demonstrating that uses of homosocial reproduction need to be sensitive to intersections of identities or categories of difference, the article adds further evidence of the persistent gap between equal opportunities policies and practice for ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom labour market. The article concludes that stronger forms of positive action, and even positive discrimination, are needed to address the low pay traps and restricted opportunities of ethnic minority workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Marchal, Sarah, Ive Marx & Gerlinde Verbist (2017): Income support policies for the working poor. (IZA discussion paper 10665), Bonn, 16 S.

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"This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum wages, social security contributions, taxes and cash benefits. We show that despite increased efforts over the past decade, disposable incomes of certain types of minimum wage workers still fall well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Schäfer, Holger & Jörg Schmidt (2017): Einmal unten - immer unten? Empirische Befunde zur Lohn- und Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 44, H. 1, S. 59-75. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.17-01-04

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"Die Debatte um die Verteilungsgerechtigkeit wird bisweilen mit großer Schärfe geführt. Darin spielen traditionell Indikatoren zur Ungleichheit eine große Rolle, die in der Regel nur eine Momentaufnahme liefern. Allerdings dürfen auch Kennzahlen zur sozialen Mobilität nicht außer Acht gelassen werden. Wenn Chancen auf einen sozialen Aufstieg vorhanden sind, können größere Ungleichheiten als weniger problematisch bewertet werden. Dies gilt vor allem für den Aufstieg aus den unteren Schichten. Empirische Befunde auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels zeigen, dass Aufstiegschancen aus dem Niedriglohnsektor vorhanden sind. Immerhin gut ein Viertel der Geringverdiener schafft den Sprung über die Niedriglohnschwelle. Während im Zeitverlauf der Anteil der Aufsteiger bis etwa zum Jahr 2008 tendenziell rückläufig war, zeichnet sich seitdem ein leicht steigender Trend ab. In Bezug auf die Einkommensmobilität, bei der neben dem Erwerbseinkommen weitere Komponenten des Haushaltseinkommens berücksichtigt sind, kann rund ein Drittel der armutsgefährdeten Personen innerhalb eines Jahres aus der untersten Einkommensschicht aufsteigen. In einem Zeitraum von zehn Jahren sind es sogar 58 Prozent. Indes ist für die Einkommensmobilität keine positive Entwicklung in der Aufstiegshäufigkeit zu erkennen. Zusammenfassend hat sich die soziale Mobilität im Zeitverlauf kaum verbessert. Insofern sollte erstens beobachtet werden, wie sich etwa vor dem Hintergrund der Flüchtlingsmigration oder der Einführung des Mindestlohns die Mobilität zukünftig entwickelt. Zweitens besteht weiterer Forschungsbedarf hinsichtlich der Gründe für die beobachtete Entwicklung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Vandelannoote, Dieter & Gerlinde Verbist (2017): The impact of in-work benefits on employment and poverty. (EUROMOD working paper 2017,04), Colchester, 33 S.

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"This article studies the impact of design characteristics of in-work benefits on employment and poverty in an international comparative setting, taking account of both first and second order labour supply effects. We use the micro-simulation model EUROMOD, which has been enriched with a discrete labour supply model. The analysis is performed for four EU-member states: Belgium, Italy, Poland and Sweden. The results show that design characteristics matter substantially, though the specific effects differ in magnitude across countries, indicating there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Throughout the analysis, numerous trade-offs are uncovered: not only between employment and poverty goals, but also within employment incentives itself (extensive vs. intensive margin). Taking account of behavioural reactions attenuates the impact on poverty outcomes, signalling the importance of bringing these effects into the empirical analysis." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))