The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

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• 作者：Gianna C. Giannelli ; Ursula Jaenichen ; Thomas Rothe
• 关键词：Hartz reforms ; Job duration ; Wage inequality
• 刊名：Journal for Labour Market Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：269-294
• 全文大小：977 KB
• 刊物主题：Labor Economics; Sociology, general; Human Resource Management; Economic Policy; Regional/Spatial Science; Population Economics;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1867-8343
• 卷排序：49

文摘

We address the concerns about rising inequality in the German labour market after the implementation of the Hartz reforms between 2003 and 2005. We focus on the quality of new jobs started between 1998 and 2010 in West Germany in terms of job stability and level of earnings. Using social security data drawn from the Integrated Employment Biographies, we analyse the distributions of job durations and wages and model their determinants at the worker level. Our results show a high degree of job stability during and after the reform years, decreasing wage levels and increasing wage dispersion.