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    Labor income inequality and in-work poverty: a comparison between euro area countries (2023)

    Bovini, Giulia; Philippis, Marta De; Romano, Stefania; Ciani, Emanuele;

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    Bovini, Giulia, Emanuele Ciani, Marta De Philippis & Stefania Romano (2023): Labor income inequality and in-work poverty: a comparison between euro area countries. (Questioni di economia e finanza (Occasional papers) / Banca d'Italia 2023,806), Rom, 35 S.

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    "We study inequality in gross labor income among the working-age population, comparing Italy to the other main euro area countries. We use EU-SILC data between 2008 and 2018, the longest period without time breaks. We show that inequality in individual labor income is higher in Italy than in France and Germany. This is mainly a consequence of the lower employment rate, i.e. of the higher share of working-age individuals with no labor income, rather than of wider earnings disparities among workers. Inequality in equivalised household labor income is also higher in Italy than in France in Germany because a lower employment rate translates into a larger share of single or no-earner households. In line with these findings, while in Italy low-earning workers are relatively few, they face a greater risk of poverty than in France or Germany, since they more often live in households where other members are not employed or have low-work-intensity jobs. These results stress the importance of jointly considering earnings and employment dynamics when analyzing labor income inequality, low-pay work, and in-work poverty." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Minimum Income Standard and equivalisation: reassessing relative costs of singles and couples and of adults and children (2021)

    Hirsch, Donald ; Math, Antoine; Padley, Matt; Pereirinha, José; Pereira, Elvira ; Thornton, Robert; Concialdi, Pierre;

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    Hirsch, Donald, Pierre Concialdi, Antoine Math, Matt Padley, Elvira Pereira, José Pereirinha & Robert Thornton (2021): The Minimum Income Standard and equivalisation. Reassessing relative costs of singles and couples and of adults and children. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 50, H. 1, S. 148-167. DOI:10.1017/S0047279419001004

    Abstract

    "Equivalence scales, used to compare incomes across household types, strongly influence which households have low reported income, affecting public policy priorities. Yet they draw on abstract, often dated evidence and arbitrary judgements, and on comparisons across the income distribution rather than focusing on minimum requirements. Budget standards provide more tangible comparisons of the minimum required by different household types. The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) method, now established in several countries, applies a common methodological framework for compiling budgets, based on public deliberations. This article draws for the first time on results across countries. In all of the four countries examined, it identifies an under-estimation by the OECD scale of the relative cost of children compared to adults, and, in three of the four, an under-estimation of the cost of singles compared to couples. This more systematically corroborates previous, dispersed evidence, and helps explain which specific expenditure categories influence these results. These results have high policy relevance, showing greater proportions of low income households to contain children than standard income distribution data. While no single equivalence scale can be universally accurate, making use of evidence based directly on benchmarks such as MIS can help inform public priorities in tackling low income." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Should we clash or should I go? The impact of low wage and poor working conditions on the exit-voice trade-off (2019)

    Godechot, Olivier; Salibekyan, Zinaïda;

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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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    The 'Great Recession' and low pay in Europe (2018)

    Vacas-Soriano, Carlos;

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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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    Hanging in, but only just: part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis (2016)

    Horemans, Jeroen; Nolan, Brian ; Marx, Ive ;

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    Horemans, Jeroen, Ive Marx & Brian Nolan (2016): Hanging in, but only just. Part-time employment and in-work poverty throughout the crisis. In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies, Jg. 5, S. 1-19. DOI:10.1186/s40174-016-0053-6

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    "The crisis has deepened pre-existing concerns regarding low-wage and non-standard employment. Countries where unemployment increased most strongly during the crisis period also saw part-time employment increasing, particularly involuntary part-time work. With involuntary part-time workers, as a particular group of underemployed, facing especially high poverty rates, this was accompanied by an increase, on average, in the poverty risk associated with working part-time. However, this was not reflected in a marked increase in the overall in-work poverty rate because full-time work remains dominant and its poverty risk did not change markedly. The household context is of the essence when considering policy implications." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Low-skill jobs or jobs for low-skilled workers?: An analysis of the institutional determinants of the employment rates of low-educated workers in 19 OECD countries, 1997 - 2010 (2015)

    Abrassart, Aurélien;

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    Abrassart, Aurélien (2015): Low-skill jobs or jobs for low-skilled workers? An analysis of the institutional determinants of the employment rates of low-educated workers in 19 OECD countries, 1997 - 2010. In: Journal of European social policy, Jg. 25, H. 2, S. 225-241. DOI:10.1177/0958928715573485

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    "We often hear that the high unemployment rates of low-educated workers in Europe are due to the rigidities of the institutions increasing the labour costs that burden employers. In this article, we challenge this traditional view and offer alternative explanations to the cross-national variation in the employment rate of low-educated workers. Using macro-data and an error correction model, we analyse the determinants of the creation of jobs for low-educated workers in 19 countries between 1997 and 2010. Our findings tend to invalidate the neoliberal view, while also pointing to the positive impact of investing in public employment services and the predominant role of economic growth, which can be weakened by union density and employment protection in the case of male workers. Last but not least, creating low skill jobs has no or little impact on the employment outcomes of low-educated workers, thus indicating job displacement issues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Die geschlechterspezifische Strukturierung des Niedriglohnsektors: eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Frankreich, Großbritannien, Schweden und Deutschland (2015)

    George, Roman;

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    George, Roman (2015): Die geschlechterspezifische Strukturierung des Niedriglohnsektors. Eine vergleichende Perspektive auf Frankreich, Großbritannien, Schweden und Deutschland. (Arbeit - Demokratie - Geschlecht 21), Münster: Verl. Westfälisches Dampfboot, 278 S.

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    "Niedriglohnarbeit findet sich besonders oft in feminisierten Segmenten des Arbeitsmarkts. Der Vergleich zwischen Frankreich, Großbritannien, Schweden und Deutschland zeigt allerdings auf, dass sich die Ausmaße und die Strukturen der Geschlechterungleichheiten deutlich unterscheiden. Roman George geht dem in seiner Studie nach und arbeitet die Länderunterschiede hinsichtlich der Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen, des Ausbildungssystems und des Sozialstaats heraus. So liefert er nicht zuletzt auch Ansatzpunkte für eine gleichstellungsorientierte Politik." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The employment of the low-skilled youth in France (2013)

    Cahuc, Pierre ; Zimmermann, Klaus F. ; Carcillo, Stéphane ;

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    Cahuc, Pierre, Stéphane Carcillo & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2013): The employment of the low-skilled youth in France. (IZA policy paper 64), Bonn, 15 S.

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    "Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis countries of Southern Europe fare worse. This report delivered to the French Council of Economic Analysis analyzes the causes and consequences of this alarming trend. In addition, drawing on the available evidence on various measures that could improve the current situation, concrete policies proposals are derived that cover the areas of vocational education, second chance programs, job search assistance, income support, employment subsidies and dismissal protection." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Low pay persistence in Europe (2013)

    Clark, Ken; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C.;

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    Clark, Ken & Nikolaos C. Kanellopoulos (2013): Low pay persistence in Europe. In: Labour economics, Jg. 23, H. August, S. 122-134. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.04.014

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    "Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay for male workers. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence in every single country. The magnitude of this effect varies by country, however this variation is not systematically related to labour market institutions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    'Varieties of institutional avoidance': employers' strategies in low-waged service sector occupations in France and Germany (2013)

    Jaehrling, Karen; Mehaut, Philippe;

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    Jaehrling, Karen & Philippe Mehaut (2013): 'Varieties of institutional avoidance'. Employers' strategies in low-waged service sector occupations in France and Germany. In: Socio-economic review, Jg. 11, H. 4, S. 687-710. DOI:10.1093/ser/mws016

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    "The article analyses patterns of atypical work and their dynamics of change in three service sectors (retailing, hotels and hospitals) in Germany and France. This sectoral approach reveals that the growth of atypical employment is not just a result of new exit options that allow employers to bypass national employment standards. To a significant extent, it is also the delayed effect of latent structures, in particular the weakness of industrial relations as well as pre-existing legal exit options and gaps in the regulation of working conditions. With increasing price competition, these latent structures have come more strongly to the fore as employers make use of their significant ability to unilaterally withdraw from an existing framework. In these service sectors, the process of dualization cannot be analysed as a mere consequence of deregulation policies nor as a result of the weakening of the generalization effect emanating from manufacturing industry." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Service offshoring and the skill composition of labour demand (2012)

    Crino, Rosario;

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    Crino, Rosario (2012): Service offshoring and the skill composition of labour demand. In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 74, H. 1, S. 20-57. DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00634.x

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    "This article studies the effects of service offshoring on the skill composition of labour demand, using novel comparable data for nine Western European countries between 1990 and 2004. The results show that service offshoring raises the relative demand for high- and medium-skilled workers. Its effects are qualitatively identical, and quantitatively similar, to those of material offshoring. Additional evidence suggests, however, that the two types of offshoring may work through different channels: complementarity between imported services and domestic skills in the case of service offshoring, substitution of low-skilled labour in the case of material offshoring. Overall, the effects are not large in economic terms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Alternativen zu Mini- und Midijobs? Die Beispiele Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich (2012)

    Herzog-Stein, Alexander ; Sesselmeier, Werner;

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    Herzog-Stein, Alexander & Werner Sesselmeier (2012): Alternativen zu Mini- und Midijobs? Die Beispiele Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich. In: WSI-Mitteilungen, Jg. 65, H. 1, S. 41-49. DOI:10.5771/0342-300X-2012-1-41

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    "Mit den 2003 eingeführten Minijobs waren die Zielvorstellungen verbunden, näher an die Normalarbeitsverhältnisse heranzurücken, zudem Übergänge zu diesen zu schaffen, aber auch im Unterschied zu den Normalarbeitsverhältnissen so attraktiv für die Arbeitnehmer zu sein, dass damit schattenwirtschaftliche Tätigkeiten abgebaut würden. Trotz des hohen Umfangs an Minijobs scheint man den damit verbundenen Zielen nicht näher gekommen zu sein. Der Beitrag untersucht vergleichbare Instrumente im Vereinigten Königreich und in Frankreich. In beiden Ländern existieren explizite Lohnzuschüsse, die im Unterschied zu Deutschland im Einkommensteuersystem verankert sind, in Kombination mit Förderschwellen und Mindestlöhnen. Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen deuten darauf hin, dass die Brückenfunktion mit dieser Instrumentenkombination effektiver funktioniert als die Minijob-Regelungen in Deutschland." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Arbeitsmarktintegration und sozioökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden: ein empirischer Vergleich: Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweden, Vereinigtes Königreich. Forschungsbericht im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales (2012)

    Jaehrling, Karen; Kalina, Thorsten; Erlinghagen, Marcel; Mümken, Sarah; Schwarzkopf, Manuela; Mesaros, Leila;

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    Jaehrling, Karen, Marcel Erlinghagen, Thorsten Kalina, Sarah Mümken, Leila Mesaros & Manuela Schwarzkopf (2012): Arbeitsmarktintegration und sozioökonomische Situation von Alleinerziehenden. Ein empirischer Vergleich: Deutschland, Frankreich, Schweden, Vereinigtes Königreich. Forschungsbericht im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales. (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Forschungsbericht Arbeitsmarkt 420), 265 S.

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    Diese Bestandsaufnahme steht unter der Leitfragestellung, inwieweit die Lebensform 'alleinerziehend' im Ländervergleich nach wie vor mit unterschiedlichen Teilhabechancen im Vergleich zu anderen Lebensformen verbunden ist. Für die Untersuchung wurden die Europäische Arbeitskräfteerhebung (EU-LFS) und die Statistik der Europäischen Union über Einkommen und Lebensbedingungen (EU-SILC) ausgewertet. Im Einzelnen analysiert werden die Erwerbsbeteiligung, die materielle Situation sowie die Lebenssituation (Deprivation, Gesundheitszustand) von Alleinerziehenden. Weiterhin wird der Einfluss nationaler institutioneller und kultureller Faktoren untersucht. Für alle vier Länder wird eine steigende Erwerbsbeteiligung von Alleinerziehenden im Zeitverlauf konstatiert, was vor allem auf arbeitsmarktpolitische Reformen und veränderte Geschlechterregime zurückgeführt wird. Trotzdem sind Alleinerziehende gegenüber Müttern in Paar-Haushalten stärker von Armut bedroht. (IAB)

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    Être sans diplôme aujourd'hui en France: quelles caractéristiques, quel parcours et quel destin? (2011)

    Bouhia, Rachid; Lebrère, Alexandre; Garrouste, Manon; Ricroch, Layla; Saint Pol, Thibaut de;

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    Bouhia, Rachid, Manon Garrouste, Alexandre Lebrère, Layla Ricroch & Thibaut de Saint Pol (2011): Être sans diplôme aujourd'hui en France. Quelles caractéristiques, quel parcours et quel destin? In: Economie et Statistique H. 443, S. 29-50.

    Abstract

    "In diesem Artikel wird die Population der Menschen untersucht, die das französische Bildungssystem ohne Abschluss verlassen haben. Beschrieben werden insbesondere ihr schulischer Werdegang und ihre Eingliederung in den Arbeitsmarkt anhand von Daten aus der Insee-Erhebung 'Ausbildung und berufliche Qualifikation' des Jahrs 2003. Mit der Anwendung einer Methode der optimalen Paarbildung im Hinblick auf den Schulkalender, die bei der Erhebung festgestellt wurde, wird eine Typologie der verschiedenen Laufbahnen erstellt, die zu einem Schulende ohne Abschluss führen. Ein besonders entscheidender Faktor für das Verlassen des Schulsystems ohne Abschluss sind die frühzeitigen schulischen Schwierigkeiten, die sich durch Sitzenbleiben in der Primarstufe äußern. Eine wichtige Rolle spielen aber auch die Orientierungen in der Oberstufe, in der die Schüler der ersten und der zweiten Sekundarstufe mit denjenigen konfrontiert sind, die eine rasche Berufsausbildung mit einem Facharbeiter- oder einem Berufsschulabschluss beenden. Die unterschiedlichen Werdegänge unterscheiden sich allerdings nicht nur entsprechend den schulischen Merkmalen der Schüler, sondern auch durch ihre sozioökonomischen Profile. So weisen die Personen mit schulischem Erfolg, die über die günstigsten sozialen Merkmale verfügen, klassischere Werdegänge auf und wiederholen eine Klasse viel später. Die Effekte der Heterogenität der sozialen Herkunft scheinen somit trotz des Fehlens eines Ausbildungsabschlusses fortzubestehen. Diese Heterogenität wirkt sich auf die Eingliederung in den Arbeitsmarkt aus. Der Umstand, über eine Qualifikation zu verfügen, fördert die Eingliederung, auch wenn diese Ausbildung nicht durch ein Diplom validiert wird. Selbst wenn die Berufsausbildungen wie der Facharbeiterabschluss eine Art von Schutzfunktion ausüben, weisen die Personen mit dem klassischsten schulischen Werdegang die geringste Arbeitslosenquote sowie die stabilsten beruflichen Laufbahnen zum Zeitpunkt der Erhebung auf." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The unequal incidence of non-standard employment across occupational groups: an empirical analysis of post-industrial labour markets in Germany and Europe (2011)

    Marx, Paul;

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    Marx, Paul (2011): The unequal incidence of non-standard employment across occupational groups. An empirical analysis of post-industrial labour markets in Germany and Europe. (IZA discussion paper 5521), Bonn, 23 S.

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    "The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard employment? To explore these questions, the paper derives a detailed occupational scheme from the literature, capturing the variety of labour market outcomes within countries. In a second step, the scheme is theoretically linked to the topic of non-standard work. It is argued that different degrees of skill specificity across occupational groups produce diverging incentives for flexible and long-term employment, respectively. This leads to the expectation of (some) service-sector occupations showing stronger tendencies towards non-standard employment than those in the industrial sector. Based on European and German micro data, the categorisation is used to decompose various labour market indicators. The results clearly demonstrate the unequal incidence of non-standard employment along the lines of the suggested categorisation. Moreover, the longitudinal perspective suggests that traditionally functioning occupational groups will be crowded out by more destandardised ones." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Gender gaps across countries and skills: supply, demand and the industry structure (2011)

    Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara;

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    Olivetti, Claudia & Barbara Petrongolo (2011): Gender gaps across countries and skills. Supply, demand and the industry structure. (CEP discussion paper 1093), London, 42 S.

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    "The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework, this positive correlation would reveal the presence of net demand forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to illustrate how differences in labor demand for different inputs can be driven by both within-industry and between-industry factors. The main idea is that, if the service sector is more developed in the US than in continental Europe, and unskilled women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and/or employment penalty in the latter than in the former. We find that, overall, the between-industry component of labor demand explains more than half of the total variation in labor demand between the US and the majority of countries in our sample, as well as one-third of the correlation between wage and hours gaps. The between-industry component is relatively more important in countries where the relative demand for unskilled females is lowest." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Leiharbeiter im sozialen Abseits: Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Deutschland (2011)

    Seigis, M. Christian;

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    Seigis, M. Christian (2011): Leiharbeiter im sozialen Abseits. Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Deutschland. Marburg: Tectum, 100 S.

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    "Leiharbeiter sind scheinbar die Sklaven der neuen Arbeitswelt. In den vergangenen Jahren ist die Zahl der Leiharbeiter auf über 600 000 angewachsen - mit steigender Tendenz. Ihre Arbeitsbedingungen sind gleich, doch das Prinzip 'Gleiche Arbeit - gleiches Geld' greift hier nicht. Oft reicht das Gehalt selbst bei einer vollen Stelle nicht, um den Lebensunterhalt zu sichern. Der Steuerzahler subventioniert diese Jobs zugunsten der Arbeitgeber über Sozialleistungen. Dabei gilt für Leiharbeit- oder Zeitarbeitnehmer bereits seit 2004 gesetzlich der Gleichbehandlungsgrundsatz. Der Autor untersucht, wie die gesetzlichen Vorgaben teilweise umgangen werden, und zeigt Wege auf, wie dies zu ändern wäre, etwa durch Kombi- oder gesetzliche Mindestlöhne. Darüber hinaus beleuchtet er das Thema Leiharbeit von seiner Entstehungs- und Entwicklungsgeschichte über die Rechtsbeziehungen bis zu den gravierenden Auswirkungen der Hartz-Reformen sowie zu den Folgen der europäischen Implikationen. Auch die Auswirkungen auf das deutsche Rentenversicherungssystem kommen zur Sprache." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Subsidizing low-skilled jobs in a dual labor market (2010)

    Belan, Pascal; Carré, Martine; Gregoir, Stéphane;

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    Belan, Pascal, Martine Carré & Stéphane Gregoir (2010): Subsidizing low-skilled jobs in a dual labor market. In: Labour economics, Jg. 17, H. 5, S. 776-788. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.04.003

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    "We introduce a matching model that allows for classical and frictional unemployment. The labor market is dual featuring low-skilled and high-skilled workers and simple and complex jobs. Simple jobs pay a minimum wage, while wages in the complex jobs are determined by Nash bargaining. Opportunities for lowskilled workers are limited to simple jobs; while high-skilled unemployed can apply for both types of jobs, and thereby can accept to be downgraded. We analyze the outcomes of simple job subsidy policies assuming that government budget is balanced through taxes on occupied workers. We first give conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a steady-state equilibrium and we then analyze the effects of different fiscal instruments. We show that in this set-up, increasing simple job subsidies does not necessarily reduce lowskilled unemployment or unemployment spells. By introducing heterogeneous skills and possible downgrading of the high-skilled workers, we show that the effectiveness of such policies in reducing the classical unemployment is decreasing. In fact, any additional classical unemployed re-entering the job market is accompanied by an increasing number of high-skilled workers downgrading to low-skilled jobs. We calibrate the model on French labor market data. It is found that for five low-skilled workers leaving classical unemployment, two high-skilled workers are downgraded." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Impacts of hiring subsidies targeted at the long-term unemployed on the low-skilled labor market: the French experience (2010)

    Bucher, Anne;

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    Bucher, Anne (2010): Impacts of hiring subsidies targeted at the long-term unemployed on the low-skilled labor market. The French experience. In: Economic Modelling, Jg. 27, H. 2, S. 553-565. DOI:10.1016/j.econmod.2009.11.010

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    "This paper proposes a theoretical matching framework to analyze firms' and workers' response to a targeted hiring subsidy program when taking into account interactions between segments of the low-skilled labor market. By developing a general equilibrium model, the paper provides a useful tool to evaluate the aggregate effects induced on the low-skilled labor market. Then, the model is computed above French data to estimate the employment and welfare effects of a measure introduced in France in 1995, the 'Initiative-for-Employment Contract'. Finally, as the framework is well-suited to investigate design issues, I analyze the efficiency of the French program as well as targeting issues." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    In-work poverty and labour market segmentation in the EU: key lessons. Synthesis report (2010)

    Frazer, Hugh; Marlier, Eric;

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    Frazer, Hugh & Eric Marlier (2010): In-work poverty and labour market segmentation in the EU. Key lessons. Synthesis report. Brüssel, 64 S.

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    "Until now in-work poverty and labour market segmentation have not received sufficient attention in the EU's efforts to tackle poverty and social exclusion. However, given that the 17 million working poor in the EU represent about 15% of the new Europe 2020 social inclusion target, this is likely to become a more important issue in the future. The analysis of in-work poverty and labour market segmentation presented here is a first step to fill this gap and to suggest how progress can be made on this issue. It is also intended as a contribution to the monitoring of the EU 'Active Inclusion' process, which was launched at the end of 2008 and which is a crucial part of the EU's efforts to tackle poverty and social exclusion.
    The Network Core Team's Synthesis Report is based on individual country reports prepared by members of the EU Network of Independent Experts on Social Inclusion. The experts' reports cover three elements. First, they provide a general statistical overview of the situation in their country in a comparative perspective, presenting some of the agreed indicators used to monitor the Social Open Method of Coordination and European Employment Strategy objectives. This is complemented with any available national data. Secondly, they examine the main explanatory factors for inwork poverty and labour market segmentation by undertaking a critical review of national studies by Governments and researchers. They also highlight the political debate at national level on these issues. Thirdly, they present and analyse policies in Member States to address in-work poverty and labour market segmentation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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