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Technological innovation has historically contributed to inclusive economic growth in Germany. In more recent decades, however, this contribution has weakened due to the declining impact of technological innovation on labor productivity growth. Fearing that this declining impact would undermine the international competitiveness of the economy, real labor compensation was progressively curbed since ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2017,
(IZA DP No. 11194)
| Wim Naudé, Paula Nagler
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Does active leisure make life more satisfying? If so, what kind of leisure activity is the greatest contributor to happiness? These questions are answered by means of data from four waves of a large-scale continuous study of the general public in Germany. Cross-sectional analysis does not show much of a relationship between happiness and last year’s leisure activities, with the exception of holiday ...
In:
Ingrid Brdar ,
The Human Pursuit of Well-Being: A Cultural Approach
Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
39-53
| Jeroen Nawijn, Ruut Veenhoven
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This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings to evidence for the US and the UK. Cross sectional data and calendar information from the German Socioeconomic Panel 1984-1997 are combined allowing to check possible influences of oversampling long jobs in cross sectional data. Three different measures are looked at. All indicate that ...
Frankfurt/M.:
J. W. Goethe-Universität, Sfb 3,
1999,
(Sfb 3-Working Paper 60-1999)
| Antje Mertens
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In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
222 (2002), 5, 584-608
| Antje Mertens
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Self-reported satisfaction measures respond to a great variety of socio-demographic characteristics as well as the job and living environment. In this paper we ask whether the recent financial market crisis has caused a deterioration of satisfaction not only for the unemployed but also for those out of the labour force and especially those in employment. The focus of our analyses is on the pattern ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
125 (2016), 2, 537-565
| Antje Mertens, Miriam Beblo
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Germany and Spain are typically regarded as ‘rigid’ economies, yet both have had different experiences of fixed-term jobs. Using quantile regression we find that in West Germany the earnings of permanent and fixed-term workers are most similar among high earners and most dissimilar among low earners. In Spain, the wage penalty shows little variation across the distribution of wages. This pattern was ...
In:
Labour
21 (2007), 4/5, 637 - 666
| Antje Mertens, Vanessa Gash, Frances McGinnity
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 75-85
| Antje Mertens, Frances McGinnity
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Frankfurt/M. - Mannheim:
1987,
(Sfb 3-Arbeitspapier Nr. 249)
| Joachim Merz
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In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
207 (1990), 3, 240-270
| Joachim Merz
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Lüneburg:
Universität Lüneburg, Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften,
1992,
(Discussion Paper No. 2)
| Joachim Merz