@article{2014:teitzer:arbeitsmar,
title = {Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung und Niedriglohnbeschäftigung: Deutschland und Österreich im Vergleich},
year = {2014},
note = {Low-paid employment has increased considerably in Germany and Austria
over the past fifteen years. In Germany this has resulted in one of
the largest low-paid employment rates in comparison to other European
countries. At the same time, Austria, loses its special position as a
country with a particularly small low-paid sector. The article
investigates the underlying causes for the increase in low-paid
employment and seeks to identify those groups that are at risk of
falling into the low-wage group. Finally, the article addresses the
question of what are the similarities and differences between Germany
and Austria. For the empirical analysis we use the SOEP-data for
Germany and the EU-SILC data as well as the ECHP-data for Austria. Our
analysis encompasses the time period between 1996 and 2010.
Methodologically, regression and decomposition analysis are used. Our
results show that certain groups on the German and Austrian labour
markets have faced increasing risks of entering low-paid employment
over the last fifteen years. These risk groups are mainly women,
migrants, persons with low qualifications or in atypical jobs as well
as employees in the agriculture sector, the hotel and restaurant
industry and in the personal service sector. Moreover, it could be
observed that changes in the composition of the labour markets (e.g.
growth of highly qualified jobs) slightly slowed down the rise of
low-paid employment rates.},
journal = {WSI-Mitteilungen},
pages = {257--266},
author = {Teitzer, Roland and Fritsch, Nina-Sophie and Verwiebe, Roland},
volume = {67},
number = {4}
}