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financialisation on the worker-consumer nexus are selected and tested: 1) the social inequality thesis, 2) the debt-income compensation …The paper examines the interdependencies of financialisation and working conditions by exploring the comparative …, it is concluded that the impact of financialisation on well-being cannot simply be read from the size of national …
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Processes such as globalization, the spread of information technology and the intensification of competition caused significant and meaningful changes in the labour market. On one hand there are some companies that invest in innovation and quality, allowing and encouraging the growth of workers...
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In der empirischen Arbeitsmarktforschung spielt der Staat als Arbeitgeber bislang eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Die Tatsache, dass die Geltung eines Tarifvertrags und die Existenz eines Betriebs- bzw. Personalrats integraler Bestandteil des oeffentlichen Dienstes sind, muss bei einem Vergleich...
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Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...
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Workplace situation as well as work values have apparently changed in the last decades. However, up to now we do not know how these changes are related. This article considers both, workplace situation and work values, together and analyses theoretically and empirically how different...
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the growth of consumption inequality in the face of burgeoning income inequality. The global financial crisis (GFC) and …
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the growth of consumption inequality in the face of burgeoning income inequality. The global financial crisis (GFC) and …
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households. Using household level data on debt accumulation during 2001-2012, we show that low-income households in high-inequality … regions accumulated less debt relative to income than their counterparts in lower-inequality regions, which negates the … during the 2000s. We present a model in which banks use applicants' incomes, combined with local income inequality, to infer …
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This paper studies the secular increase in U.S. household debt and its relation to growing income inequality and …
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