In-work poverty contradicts the belief that a job should provide a decent standard of living. Nevertheless, the share of working poor in most European countries has risen. Studies show that the development of in-work poverty is attributable to changes in the distributive performance of the labour market, households and the welfare state, as measured by their ability to prevent people from falling below ...
In den Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften ist in den letzten Jahren der Trend zu beobachten, bei der mikroanalytischen Fundierung der menschlichen Handlungstheorie individuellen Präferenzen und Werten eine stärkere Beachtung zu schenken. Nachdem in den vergangenen Jahren bereits diverse sozialpsychologisch motivierte Erweiterungen im Fragenprogramm des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) erfolgten, ...
This paper studies how insurance from progressive taxation improves the matching of workers to occupations. We propose an equilibrium dynamic assignment model to illustrate how social insurance encourages mobility. Workers experiment to find their best occupational fit in a process filled with uncertainty. Risk aversion and limited earnings insurance induce workers to remain in unfitting occupations. ...