Around the turn of the millennium, the number of unemployed people in Germany increased significantly. As a result, the then Federal Government favoured the emergence of a relatively large low-wage sector through various labour market reforms.
Under the direction of Dr Markus M. Grabka, DIW Econ conducted a comprehensive analysis of the structure of the low-wage sector and the associated mobility dynamics based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
The future of work – in the dialogue process Work 4.0, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) is on the trail of this topic.
DIW Econ, together with Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), DIW Econ has written an article for the current BMAS workbook.
DIW Weekly Report 19 / 2016, S. 419-427
Since the 1980s, the number of people of working age who are not in paid employment has fallen significantly in (West) Germany. Correspondingly, the proportion of those without a job has fallen among 18 to 67 year-olds. This increase in employment was mainly in favour of marginal employment or working as a solo self-employed person rather than in normal employment.
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research