Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsvolumen in Deutschland – Methodische Grundlagen und Ergebnisse der Arbeitszeitrechnung

Wanger, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s11943-013-0127-0

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“…For example, in 2019, 58% of women in Germany worked part-time(Wanger, 2020) and women held 81% of all part-time jobs(Statistisches Bundesamt, 2021a).…”

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau¹,

Peichl²,

Schmieder³

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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us -for the first time -to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While for men earnings rise and inequality falls as they grow older, many women reduce working hours when starting a family such that average earnings fall and inequality increases. Men's earnings changes are on average smaller than women's but are substantially more affected by the business cycle. During the Great Recession, men's earnings losses become magnified and gains are attenuated. Apart from recession years, earnings changes are significantly right-skewed reflecting the good overall state of the German labor market and increasing labor supply. In the second part of the paper, we study the distribution of total income including incomes of self-employed, business owners, and landlords. We find that total inequality increased significantly more than earnings inequality. Regarding income dynamics, entrepreneurs' income changes are more dispersed, less skewed, less leptokurtic and less dependent on average past income than workers' income changes. Finally, we find that top income earners have become less likely to fall out of the top 1 and 0.1 percent.

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“…For example, in 2019, 58% of women in Germany worked part-time(Wanger, 2020) and women held 81% of all part-time jobs(Statistisches Bundesamt, 2021a).…”

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

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Peichl²,

Schmieder³

et al. 2022

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“…In some countries, the estimation for the National Accounts is derived directly from the LFS, while in others, like France and Germany, it is at least partly independent of the LFS (see Wanger 2013 for Germany and Lefèvre, Rakotomalala, and Toutlemonde 2012 for France). Table 3 shows that comparing working-time estimates is a delicate task, not only internationally, but also as regards comparisons between the LFS and the National Accounts.…”

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“…There is no direct empirical evidence for this. However, the total number of estimated weeks of absence due to holiday leave per full-time employee in Germany seems conspicuously low: only 3.6 weeks, whereas the volume of labour accounts, based on information from collective bargaining agreements, assumes a value of around 6 weeks (see IAB 2014; Wanger 2013). According to the data compiled by the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO), the number of days of paid leave is around 30 days in Germany (according to collective agreements) and significantly more than 25 days in France (statutory minimum), based on a five-day working week (Eurofound 2013, 18 -19).…”

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“Do the Germans Really Work Six Weeks More than the French?” – Measuring Working Time with the Labour Force Survey in France and Germany

Körner

Wolff²

2016

Journal of Official Statistics

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Measuring working time is not only an important objective of the EU Labour Force Survey (LFS), but also a highly demanding task in terms of methodology. Against the background of a recent debate on the comparability of working time estimates in France and Germany, this article presents a comparative assessment of the measurement of working time in the Labour Force Survey obtained in both countries. It focuses on the measurement of the hours actually worked, the key working-time concept for short-term economic analysis and the National Accounts. The contribution systematically analyses the differences in the measurement approaches used in France and Germany in order to identify the methodological effects that hinder comparability. It comes to the conclusion that the LFS overstates the difference in hours actually worked in France and Germany and identifies question comprehension, rounding, editing effects, as well as certain aspects of the sampling design, as crucial factors of a reliable measurement in particular of absences from work during the reference week. We recommend continuing the work started in the European Statistical System towards the development of a model questionnaire in order to improve cross-national harmonisation of key variables such as hours actually worked.

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“…Zur Interpretation der TFP ist zu sagen, dass die TFP neben dem technologischen oder institutionellen Wandel auch Messfehler und fehlende Variablen beinhaltet (Hulten 2001: 40) Wirtschaftszweig-und qualifikationsspezifischer Arbeitsvolumenbedarf Die Wirtschaftszweige werden in Anlehnung an die NACE-Klassifikation in neun Kategorien zusammengefasst. 9 Die Qualifikationen werden über den höchsten beruflichen Abschluss gemessen: Personen ohne Berufsausbildung (ohne BA), mit Berufsausbildung (mit BA), mit Meistertitel, Techniker-und Fachschulabschluss (Meister, Techniker, Fachschule), mit Fachhochschulabschluss (FHS) und Personen mit Universitätsabschluss oder Promotion (Uni)).…”

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Dräger

2014

SSRN Journal

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Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsvolumen in Deutschland – Methodische Grundlagen und Ergebnisse der Arbeitszeitrechnung

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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany

“Do the Germans Really Work Six Weeks More than the French?” – Measuring Working Time with the Labour Force Survey in France and Germany

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