Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their comparatively low level of about €500 per semester, fees were perceived by the public to increase social injustice and have been abolished recently. Whereas other studies have shown no...

The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD average. Therefore, the "carrot and stick" principle of Hartz reforms is in clear need of...

Das DIW Berlin hat im Herbst 2013 eine Studie über Mindestlöhne vorgelegt, die auf Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) für das Jahr 2011 beruhte. Inzwischen liegen Daten für 2012 vor. Im Jahr 2012 erhielten 5,2 Millionen Arbeitnehmer einen Bruttostundenlohn von weniger als 8,50 Euro...

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...

The contribution discusses the impact of digitalization approaches in industrial companies and their implications for the global division of labour and work. It proceeds by investigating the scope and character of automation and its impact on the relationship between production locations in high...

The IAB's Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) and the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are the two data sets most commonly used to analyze wage inequality in Germany. While the SIAB is based on administrative reports by employers to the social security system, the SOEP is a survey...

Although wage inequality is an important and widely studied issue, the literature is vastly silent on the relationship between firm entry and exit and the wage dispersion between firms. Using a 50% random administrative sample of West German establishments over the period 1976-2017, I study wage...

Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining start-ups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following individuals over ten years, we find huge and...

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

In den vergangenen zehn Jahren stiegen die Löhne in Deutschland langsamer als die Wirtschaftsleistung. Im Schnitt blieben die Löhne Jahr für Jahr um rund 0,3 Prozent hinter dem zurück, was angesichts der Produktionsentwicklung an Verteilungsmasse zur Verfügung stand. Zwar gibt es auch...