Der Beitrag nutzt zwei verschiedene Datensätze zur Struktur der Arbeitsverdienste in Deutschland – das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienststruktur­erhebung – um den Anteil der Beschäftigten zu ermitteln, die von dem im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossenen Mindestlohn betroffen wären....

Der Beitrag nutzt zwei verschiedene Datensätze zur Struktur der Arbeitsverdienste in Deutschland – das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienststruktur­erhebung – um den Anteil der Beschäftigten zu ermitteln, die von dem im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossenen Mindestlohn betroffen wären....

Im Oktober wurden die ersten Ergebnisse der PIAAC-Studie veröffentlicht. Nachdem in PISA die Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern getestet wurden, wurden nunmehr die Erwachsenen geprüft. Führende an der Entwicklung und Auswertung von PIAAC beteiligte Personen – Beatrice Rammstedt,...

There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

Apprenticeship plans provide the basis for reliably and comprehensively classifying the skills of a large share of Germany’s workforce. In total, we classify more than 13,000 different skills and the duration of learning each skill based on the apprenticeship plans. Workers who have acquired...

The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...

There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...

There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...