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Is perfection optimal? Employment and product market competition

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - 2000

This paper proposes a model of efficiency wage with endogenous workers flows in interaction with imperfect competition on the product markets. Subject to economy-wide shocks, firms hire and fire workers thus generating a certain turnover. We show that the intensity of this turnover negatively...

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Risks at work: the demand and supply sides of government redistribution

Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Rehm, Philipp - 2005

turn our attention to the supply side of government redistribution. Institutions, we argue, mediate governments’ reactions … training systems, electoral institutions as well as government partisanship shape government responses. …

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Atypische Beschäftigung in Europa 1996-2009

Schmeißer, Claudia; Stuth, Stefan; Behrend, Clara; … - 2012

Um die Wirkung atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse auf Struktur und Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit abschätzen zu können, zeichnet das vorliegende Discussion Paper für 20 europäische Länder nach, wie sich atypische Beschäftigung im Vergleich zu regulären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen...

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Atypical employment in Europe 1996-2011

Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013

, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In our analyses, we distinguish between fixedterm employment, solo …

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Social inequalities in Europe: Facing the challenge

Allmendinger, Jutta; von den Driesch, Ellen - 2014

This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...

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Regionale Gestaltung von Arbeit: Beschäftigung, Mitbestimmung, Personalaufwand und Ausbildung in den 50 größten Unternehmen in Berlin

Scholz, Robert - 2020

Die vorliegende Untersuchung veranschaulicht die Bedeutung der 50 größten Unternehmen in Berlin mit Fokus auf ihre Beschäftigungsstrukturen. Haben sie ihren Hauptsitz in Berlin? Gibt es Branchenschwerpunkte? Wer sind die Eignerinnen und Eigner der Firmen? Welche Rolle spielt die...

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Zwischen Transformation und Krise: Automobilzulieferindustrie in Deutschland im Umbruch

Krzywdzinski, Martin - 2024

In der im Sommer 2024 durchgeführten Befragung von 182 Betriebsrät:innen in der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie berichten 60% von Beschäftigungsabbau in den letzten fünf Jahren. Besorgnis erregend ist der genauso hohe Anteil von Betriebsrät:innen, die erwarten, dass der...

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Citizen support for the Welfare State: Determinants of preferences for income redistribution

Rehm, Philipp - 2005

) occupational unemployment. Some of these measures are novel. The paper relies on the European Social Survey 2002/2003 in order to … test the formulated hypotheses. The results show that a) skill specificity and occupational unemployment are important …

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How Does Democracy Cause Growth?

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa A.; Eberhardt, Markus - 2023

institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and … opportunities as well as the distribution of political power shaped by underlying institutions, in combination with the extent of … selection into institutional change, and run horse races between underlying institutions. We find that freedom of expression …

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Taxing work: Some political and economic aspects of labor income taxation

Cusack, Thomas R.; Beramendi, Pablo - 2003

This paper examines the development of tax regimes across the OECD countries in the latter part of the 20th century. It pays particular attention to taxes on labor income. A number of results emerge from this examination. First, not only do taxes on labor income represent a major drain on...

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