Marginal employment: Stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience

Arbeitspapier

Marginal Employment, i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment effects accounting for total time spent in various labor market states and related earnings over a period of three years. We find that marginal employment (i) does not affect time spent in regular employment within a three-years' observation period, (ii) reduces future unemployment, (iii) slightly increases cumulated future earnings, on average, and (iv) is associated with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 744

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
• Thema: Marginal employment ; social security contributions ; wage subsidies ; labour market policy ; evaluation of treatment effects ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Ungeschützte Beschäftigung ; Sozialversicherungsbeitrag ; Lohnsubvention ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Freier, Ronny ; Steiner, Viktor
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27268
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ