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Der pathologische Exportboom: These und Stellungnahmen
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Sauernheimer, Karlhans; Seidel, Tobias; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 01, pp. 3-32
Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft gibt Rätsel auf: Einerseits ist Deutschland Export-(Vize-)Weltmeister, andererseits leidet es unter einer anhaltenden Wachstums- und Beschäftigungsschwäche. Ist das Exportwachstum Ausdruck ungebrochener internationaler Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und die Wachstums- und...
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Reformkonzepte zur Erhöhung der Beschäftigung im Niedriglohnbereich: Ein Überblick
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Meister, Wolfgang; Ochel, Wolfgang; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 3-20
Nachdem das ifo Institut im Mai des Jahres 2002 seine Studie zur Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe vorgestellt hatte, wurde in Deutschland eine Diskussion zu den Möglichkeiten einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik zum Zwecke der Entwicklung des Niedriglohnsektors geführt. Am Beginn der Diskussion standen...
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Die zentralen Elemente der Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Holzner, Christian; Meister, Wolfgang; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 48-53
Das Konzept der Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe besteht im Wesentlichen aus einer auf 500 € erhöhten Hinzuverdienstgrenze beim Arbeitslosengeld II, einer individuellen Lohnsteuergutschrift für die ersten 200 € in Höhe der Arbeitgebersozialbeiträge nebst einem Erlass der...
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What Helps and What Hinders? Exploring the Role of Workplace Characteristics for Parental Leave Use and Its Career Consequences
Samtleben, Claire; Bringmann, Julia; Bünning, Mareike; … - In: Social Sciences 8 (2019) 10, pp. --
The division of parental leave among couples today is still unequal—even in countries with progressive leave schemes. Given the gendered nature of the workplace, we examine how organizational characteristics relate to fathers’ uptake and length of parental leave as well as to the perceived...
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Paternal Part-Time Employment and Fathers' Long-Term Involvement in Child Care and Housework
Bünning, Mareike - In: Journal of Marriage and Family 82 (2020) 2, pp. 566-586
[Objective:] This study examines whether paternal part-time employment is related to greater involvement by fathers in … child care and housework, both while fathers are working part-time and after they return to full-time employment …,915 fathers. Fixed effects regression techniques are used to estimate the effect of (previous) part-time employment on fathers …
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Economic assimilation of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
Peri, Giovanni; Rutledge, Zachariah - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26
cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … States without an employment rate disadvantage, and they surpassed natives within 10 years. We also find that Mexicans and …
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Parenthood as a driver of increased gender inequality during COVID-19? Exploratory evidence from Germany
Hipp, Lena; Bünning, Mareike - In: European Societies 23 (2021) S1, pp. S658-S673
Drawing on three waves of survey data from a non-probability sample from Germany, this paper examines two opposing expectations about the pandemic’s impacts on gender equality: The optimistic view suggests that gender equality has increased, as essential workers in Germany have been...
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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economic modelling 20 (2003) 2, pp. 237-273
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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Can insider power affect employment?
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - In: German economic review 4 (2003) 2, pp. 139-150
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
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