TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Giannelli, Gianna Claudia
AU  - Jaenichen, Ursula
AU  - Rothe, Thomas
        TI  - Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
        PY  - 2013/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7580
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7580
        AB  - The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the quality of newly started jobs between 1998 and 2010 using a huge administrative data set which allows us to look at job durations and earnings for different groups of workers. We discuss changes in the distributions of job durations and earnings over time, and present microeconometric models controlling for individual, firm and regional characteristics. Our results show a fairly constant level of overall job stability, but decreasing real wages and rising wage dispersion over time.
        KW  - real wages
KW  - job duration
KW  - job quality
KW  - labour market reforms
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1998-2010
        ER  -